Stephen King Quotes

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”

― Stephen King, The Green Mile

topic:time darkness

“You can move away from a stranger. You can't move away from yourself.”

― Stephen King, The Shining

topic:self

“That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

topic:God humanity

“Do your best and let God do the rest is just one of many sayings Christy dragged back from her AA meetings.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

topic:God

“FEAR stands for something else, as well: Fuck everything and run.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

topic:fear

“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”

― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

topic:men age

“Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

topic:reality

“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... or change.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God’s name would you want to make things worse by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:words writing meaning

“The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:pain

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