Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

305. “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

306. “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

307. “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

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

— Stephen King

309. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

313. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

316. “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

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

— Stephen King

318. “A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.”

— Stephen King

319. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

322. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

326. “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

327. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

332. “A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”

— Stephen King

333. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

338. “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

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

— Stephen King

340. “Politics always change. Stories never do.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

342. “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

343. “Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.”

— Stephen King

344. “Everything’s a lot tougher when it’s for real. That’s when you choke. When it’s for real.”

— Stephen King

345. “Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be.”

— Stephen King

346. “We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.”

— Stephen King

347. “If you’ve ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you’ll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”

— Stephen King

348. “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

349. “Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody.”

— Stephen King

350. “But see that you get on. That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”

— Stephen King