Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. King has published 62 novels. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. I hope my collection of Stephen King Quotes will fill your mind with amazing thoughts.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
– Stephen King
Stephen King Quotes
1. “Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.” – Stephen King
2. “Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” – Stephen King
3. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King
4. “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
5. “It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.” – Stephen King
6. “Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.” – Stephen King
7. “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
8. “Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.” – Stephen King
9. “I was being paid to do what I loved, and there’s no gig on earth better than that; it’s like a license to steal.” – Stephen King
10. “Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” – Stephen King
11. “Anger is the most useless emotion, destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.” – Stephen King
12. “Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair.” – Stephen King
13. “Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” – Stephen King
14. “Don’t let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.” – Stephen King
15. “I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better — and maybe not all that much better after all.” – Stephen King
16. “We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.” – Stephen King
17. “If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.” – Stephen King
18. “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.” – Stephen King
19. “There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.” – Stephen King
20. “If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the tools to write.” – Stephen King
21. “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” – Stephen King
22. “If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.” – Stephen King
23. “Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” – Stephen King
24. “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” – Stephen King
25. “People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.” – Stephen King
26. “Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.” – Stephen King
27. “When all else fails, give up and go to the library.” – Stephen King
28. “A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.” – Stephen King
29. “Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.” – Stephen King
30. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King
31. “Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map… A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first, you give to it.” – Stephen King
32. “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
33. “If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.” – Stephen King
34. “If you don’t control your temper, your temper will control you.” – Stephen King
35. “Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.” – Stephen King
36. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” – Stephen King
37. “Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.” – Stephen King
38. “Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear.” – Stephen King
39. “The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.” – Stephen King
40. “I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing” – Stephen King
