All Time Favourite Stephen King Quotes

Stephen king full name Stephen Edwin King born in portland, Maine, U.S., is an American novelist and short-story writer, mostly in the fiction genre. His books were credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the 20th century, many of his books have been adapted into films, television series short series, and comics. He has also received many awards for his contribution to literature. Stephen King has been nicknamed ” King of Horrors” as a reference to his high standing in the pop culture. Check out these interesting Stephen King quotes.

Stephen King Quotes

1. If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write. – Stephen King

2. Description begins in the writer’s imagination but should finish in the reader’s. – Stephen King

3. Nothing was certain; there were many strange twists and devious turns as one hopped down the overgrown bunny trail of life. – Stephen King

4. The scariest moment is always just before you start. – Stephen King

5. We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. – Stephen King

6. If you don’t control your temper, your temper will control you. – Stephen King

7. Life’s simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook. – Stephen King

8. If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. – Stephen King

9. Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. – Stephen King

10. The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows. – Stephen King

11. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. – Stephen King

12. Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. – Stephen King

13. The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day. – Stephen King

14. I watched titanic when I got back home from the hospital and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. – Stephen King

15. He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. – Stephen King

16. Get busy living, or get busy dying. – Stephen King

17. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. – Stephen King

18. …writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped. – Stephen King

19. Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. – Stephen King

20. Books are uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King

Here are some more Stephen King Quotes

1. Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. – Stephen King

2. The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. – Stephen King

3. Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always comes around to where you started again. – Stephen King

4. You couldn’t get hold of the things you’d done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. – Stephen King

5. The road to hell is paved with adverbs. – Stephen King

6. Fiction is the truth inside the lie. – Stephen King

7. The most important thing is the hardest to say because words diminish. – Stephen King

8. Talent is cheaper than table salt because what separates the talented individual from successful is lots of hard work. – Stephen King

9. There is no harm in hoping for the best as long as you are prepared for the worst. – Stephen King

10. They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

 

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