Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.”

— Stephen King

202. “The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.”

— Stephen King

203. “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”

— Stephen King

204. “If God rewards us on earth for good deeds – the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it – then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.”

— Stephen King

205. “I hated school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.”

— Stephen King

206. “There’s a saying – “Write what you know.” It’s bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.”

— Stephen King

207. “And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.”

— Stephen King

208. “People don’t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

— Stephen King

209. “You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.”

— Stephen King

210. “Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.”

— Stephen King

211. “It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster’s shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.”

— Stephen King

212. “Weird love’s better than no love at all.”

— Stephen King

213. “That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”

— Stephen King

214. “When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.”

— Stephen King

215. “There’s a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.”

— Stephen King

216. “It’s “Merry Christmas” at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.”

— Stephen King

217. “Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in.”

— Stephen King

218. “I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.”

— Stephen King

219. “Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.”

— Stephen King

220. “But it’s writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can’t or won’t, it’s time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.”

— Stephen King

221. “The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.”

— Stephen King

222. “In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it ‘got boring,’ the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

— Stephen King

223. “Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.”

— Stephen King

224. “When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”

— Stephen King

225. “Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don’t have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”

— Stephen King

226. “Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.”

— Stephen King

227. “Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.”

— Stephen King

228. “God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”

— Stephen King

229. “Memory is the basis of every journey.”

— Stephen King

230. “The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.”

— Stephen King

231. “The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You’re going to be dreaming soon.”

— Stephen King

232. “Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who’s always looking beyond.”

— Stephen King

233. “To the devil with false modesty.”

— Stephen King

234. “Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.”

— Stephen King

235. “But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.”

— Stephen King

236. “I’m a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.”

— Stephen King

237. “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger. That is not, of course, the same thing as an affair or a marriage, but kisses can be sweet, and their very brevity forms their own attraction.”

— Stephen King

238. “Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”

— Stephen King

239. “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

— Stephen King

240. “Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me.”

— Stephen King

241. “It is the tale, not he who tells it.”

— Stephen King

242. “And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you’re inside.”

— Stephen King

243. “The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.”

— Stephen King

244. “Once again there was the desert, and that only.”

— Stephen King

245. “We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn’t good enough, it has to do.”

— Stephen King

246. “Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.”

— Stephen King

247. “Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I’ll never tire. We’ll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”

— Stephen King

248. “Doubters will doubt to the end.”

— Stephen King

249. “When you sit down to write, write. Don’t do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.”

— Stephen King

250. “God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.”

— Stephen King