Stephen King Quotes

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

Time's the thief of memory

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

So okay — there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

We all float down here!

Sometimes dead is better

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.