Stephen King Quotes

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

It was bad, but what in high school is not? At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems like the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

I hated high 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 wrong with you.

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.