Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “There are things of such darkness and horror – just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty – that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.”

— Stephen King

302. “Clear communication between selves – the surface self and the deep self – is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.”

— Stephen King

303. “The past is obdurate. It doesn’t want to change.”

— Stephen King

304. “Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”

— Stephen King

305. “A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”

— Stephen King

306. “All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...”

— Stephen King

307. “I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.”

— Stephen King

308. “We’re all dying. The world’s just a hospice with fresh air.”

— Stephen King

309. “Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that – while not perfect – is pretty spooky.”

— Stephen King

310. “True love always happens in a flash.”

— Stephen King

311. “A hurt body and mind aren’t just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.”

— Stephen King

312. “I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.”

— Stephen King

313. “When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.”

— Stephen King

314. “Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.”

— Stephen King

315. “Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”

— Stephen King

316. “If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.”

— Stephen King

317. “When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

— Stephen King

318. “My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.”

— Stephen King

319. “I have the world’s best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.”

— Stephen King

320. “A person can’t change all at once.”

— Stephen King

321. “There’s always someone who knows something.”

— Stephen King

322. “I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he’s still young and pretty.”

— Stephen King

323. “The first draft of a book – even a long one – should take no more than three months, the length of a season.”

— Stephen King

324. “If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.”

— Stephen King

325. “If you want to write, you write. The only way to learn to write is by writing.”

— Stephen King

326. “Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.”

— Stephen King

327. “If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. – Japanese Proverb.”

— Stephen King

328. “God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.”

— Stephen King

329. “She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn’t care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.”

— Stephen King

330. “Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.”

— Stephen King

331. “There’s nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.”

— Stephen King

332. “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”

— Stephen King

333. “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”

— Stephen King

334. “May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”

— Stephen King

335. “It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”

— Stephen King

336. “Constant reading will pull you into a place – a mind-set, if you like the phrase – where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.”

— Stephen King

337. “Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.”

— Stephen King

338. “The mystery of the universe is not time but size.”

— Stephen King

339. “Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.”

— Stephen King

340. “He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.”

— Stephen King

341. “Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story’s just a story.”

— Stephen King

342. “Sooner or later everything you thought you’d left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.”

— Stephen King

343. “There’s one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.”

— Stephen King

344. “The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.”

— Stephen King

345. “Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”

— Stephen King

346. “Death was no less a miracle than birth.”

— Stephen King

347. “The wise man doesn’t poke a sleeping bear with a stick.”

— Stephen King

348. “Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.”

— Stephen King

349. “On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.”

— Stephen King

350. “A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures...”

— Stephen King