Stephen King Quotes

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
-Stephen King

"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."
-Stephen King in Writing quotes.

"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
-Stephen King in Writing quotes.

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
-Stephen King in Books quotes.

"God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live."
-Stephen King in Religion quotes.

"I think that we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better--and maybe not all that much better, after all."
-Stephen King

"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."
-Stephen King in Laughter quotes.

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
-Stephen King in Success quotes.

"A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought."
-Stephen King

"Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies."
-Stephen King in Hope quotes.

"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes , and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much , we reason, how could we not be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?"
-Stephen King

"You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination."
-Stephen King

"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window."
-Stephen King

"You must not come lightly to the blank page."
-Stephen King in Writing quotes.

"People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk."
-Stephen King

"When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.""
-Stephen King