Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.
His books have sold more than 350 million copies and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books.
King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Hope is a good thing – maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “one word at a time.
You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
