Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Stephen King

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

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

— Stephen King

210. “When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

217. “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

218. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

221. “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

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

— Stephen King

223. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

229. “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

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

— Stephen King

231. “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

232. “To the devil with false modesty.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

242. “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

243. “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

244. “Doubters will doubt to the end.”

— Stephen King

245. “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

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

— Stephen King

247. “Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”

— Stephen King

248. “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

249. “Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”

— Stephen King

250. “Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there’s little fun to be had in explanations; they’re antithetical to the poetry of fear.”

— Stephen King