“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just ... come out the other side. Or you don’t.”
— Stephen King
“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.”
— Stephen King
“Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam.”
— Stephen King
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
— Stephen King
“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.”
— Stephen King
“Very nice, but you know the old saying—even a stopped clock gets it right twice a day.”
— Stephen King
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
— Stephen King
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
— Stephen King
“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
— Stephen King
“Love is what moves the world, I’ve always thought... it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down... bring them low... and make them crawl...”
— Stephen King
“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.”
— Stephen King
“If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”
— Stephen King