Stephen King

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

I don't take notes I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.

One of the problems here both for France and for Germany, is that they are both quite dependant on exports as a source of growth.

All signals are that European growth is slowing, however, the euro zone will avoid a hard landing, compared with the U. S., which has a lot of structural imbalances brought on by a boom cycle.

I wasn't going to stand our here listening to those quarrelling voices in my head. If I wasn't crazy--and I didn't think I was--listening to those contentious assholes would probably send me there, and by the express.

Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk.

My heart was pounding, and I was sweating like I was there.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

At this time the agency is not releasing any specifics of that investigation in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation.

I want some sort of guarantee that Mr. Harmon is going to do his time in Montana.

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

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library

Must you write complete sentences each time, every time Perish the thought

I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble. You Know They've Got A Hell Of A Band in Nightmares and Dreamscapes

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.