Stephen King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 62 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.
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o Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
o Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
o Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
o The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
o 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.
o The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
o Get busy living, or get busy dying.
o If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.
o Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
o We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
o If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.
o The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
o God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. –
o Fiction is the truth inside the lie. -Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
o When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, “Why god? Why me?” and the thundering voice of God answered, “There’s just something about you that pisses me off.”
o The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.
o I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
o A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
o When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “one word at a time.”
o I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
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