“I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.”
Dad
“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”
SadAll Quotes by Stephen King
“Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
Truth“Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.”
Best“Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
Work“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
Trust“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
Truth“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.”
Good“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”
God“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”
Education“It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.”
God“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”
Home“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
Romantic“Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.”
Hope“But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.”
Change“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.'”
Family“I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.”
Movies“I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.”
God“And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.”
God“I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.”
Funny“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
Hope