Stephen King Quotes

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Stephen King

Trust, Liar, Innocent

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.'
Stephen King

Life, Family, God

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.
Stephen King

Important, Feelings, Words

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

Work, Successful, Hard

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King

Truth, Lie, Friends

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King

Heart, Small, Why

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen King

Busy, Living, Dying

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.
Stephen King

Life, Beauty, Children

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

Heart, Person, Small

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Stephen King

Home, Knew, Hospital

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

Good, Bad, Book

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen King

God, Live, Sometimes

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
Stephen King

Life, Sad, Happy

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
Stephen King

Smart, Serious, Whole

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King

Romantic, Language, Romance

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
Stephen King

Big, Literary, Mac

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
Stephen King

Life, Time, Good

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

Truth, Lie, Inside

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
Stephen King

Made, Place, Stand

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King

Good, Evil, Goodness

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

Laughter, Long, Down

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
Stephen King

Life, Around, Again

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.
Stephen King

God, Powerful, Awesome

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
Stephen King

Sweet, Devil, Voice

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.
Stephen King

God, Daily, Speak

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Born: September 21, 1947

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