You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse.

— Stephen King

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

— Stephen King

Your hair is winter fire, January embers. My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT

— Stephen King

Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women, ´Roland said. ´Was He ever married?´The corners of Callahan's mouth quirked. ´No´ he said, ´but His girlfriend was a whore.´´Well, ´ Roland said, ´that's a start.´

— Stephen King

Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. If you're very lucky...more will want to do the former than the latter.

— Stephen King

You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

— Stephen King

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.

— Stephen King

You try to tell yourself that you've been lucky, most incredibly lucky, and usually that works because it's true. Sometimes it doesn't work, that's all. Then you cry.

— Stephen King

You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!!

— Stephen King

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

— Stephen King