Stephen King > Quotes

“extreme horror is, in it's own way, merciful - it doesn't let you look ahead to the end”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“A baggy sweater concealed her breasts except for token nubs.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“He told himself not to be ridiculous, to be like Jud and avoid ideas about what might be seen or heard beyond the Pet Sematary — they were loons, they were St Elmo's fire, they were the members of the New York Yankees' bullpen. Let them be anything but the creatures which leap ans crawl and slither and shamble in the world between. Let there be God, let there be Sunday morning, let there be smiling Episcopalian ministers in shining white surplices... but let them not be these dark and draggling horrors on the nightside of the universe.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“When there is love, scars are as pretty as dimples.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“She was suddenly overwhelmed with terror, the worst because she could put no name to it: The bleeding freak on this oil-stained asphalt suddenly seemed meaningless and awful in its pain and dying.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“...What did that sad, silly bitch ever do to you?”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“Pride's a joke that will make the stranger inside you laugh sooner or later.”
― Stephen King, Los ojos del dragón

“She unsnapped her heavy cotton bra and let it fall. Her breasts were milk-white, upright and smooth. The nipples were a light coffee color.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“Cats were the gangsters of the world, living outside the law and often dying there.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“...Personality projection is well documented. In fact, it's the second-most-common cause of so-called demonic possession. The most common being schizophrenia...”
― Stephen King

“Miss Desjardin, their slim, non-breasted gym teacher, stepped in, craned her neck around briefly, and slapped her hands together once, smartly.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“Carrie stood swaying between the showers and the wall with its dime sanitary-napkin dispenser, slumped over, breasts pointing at the floor, her arms dangling limply.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“The world is full of rattlesnakes. Sometimes you step on them and they don't bite. Sometimes you step over them and they bite anyway.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“It was like something from a made-up story, or a movie where you know the animals will talk and dance, if he had been ten years older, he would not have believed what he was seeing, but he was not sixteen. He was six”
― Stephen King, It

“Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“We want to die, that's why we're doing it. Why else, Garraty? Why else?”
― Stephen King

“But the heart of a man is a stony place... a hard place, where things like love and mercy can’t grow. The heart of a man is like that, Louis. Even a man as good as you. The heart of a man is full of hate, Louis. It grows like a poison tree, long after he has forgotten its seed.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King

“[He saw] time as something that would eventually bury him.”
― Stephen King, It

“The scariest moment is just before you start.
After that, things can only get better.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“She was suddenly overwhelmed with terror, the worse because she could put no name to it: The bleeding freak on this oil-stained asphalt suddenly seemed meaningless and awful in its pain and dying.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“Will Hanlon had told his wife more than once that a boy needed time to go fishing, even if it wasn't fishing he was really doing.”
― Stephen King, It

“She was dressed in a glimmering silver sheath, a perfect compliment to her blonde hair, which was up. A simple pendant hung around her neck. She looked very young, young enough to be attending rather than chaperoning.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“The most important things to say are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish them ...”
― Stephen King

“But to what purpose? Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family. Could it be true? Was he afraid somewhere inside that the Overlook might be just what he needed to finish his play and generally collect up his shit and get it together? Was he blowing the whistle on himself? Please God no, don’t let it be that way. Please.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Get busy living, or get busy dying”
― Stephen King

“La parola è soltanto la rappresentazione di un significato che la scrittura non riesce quasi mai a eguagliare.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Perhaps Harry Potter’s place is in the imaginations of his readers. And if these millions of readers are awakened to the wonders and rewards of fantasy at 11 or 12 . . . well, when they get to age 16 or so, there’s this guy named King.”
― Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft