The scariest moment is always just before you start.
– Stephen King
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, “Why god? Why me?” and the thundering voice of God answered, There’s just something about you that pisses me off.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
– Stephen King
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
– Stephen King
No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver…. The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.
– Stephen King
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
– Stephen King
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
– Stephen King
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
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
– Stephen King
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
– Stephen King
A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.
– Stephen King
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
– Stephen King
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
– Stephen King