Stephen King Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.”

“Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.”

“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”

“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.”

“When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'”

“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.”

“But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.”

“It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.”

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

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