Stephen King Quotes

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

I went down the staircase whistling; I felt wonderful. Things happen that way sometimes. When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all in the wastebasket and goes to Florida for a little while. There is a sudden electric what-the-hell glow as you stand there looking back over your shoulder at the bridge you just burned down.

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Lisey's Story. That one felt like an important book to me because it was about marriage, and I'd never written about that. I wanted to talk about two things: One is the secret world that people build inside a marriage, and the other was that even in that intimate world, there's still things that we don't know about each other.

If dogs could fly, nobody would go out without an umbrella.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.