Stephen King

"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them, they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."

- Stephen King

"The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time… Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers —common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words."

- Stephen King

"People always want a reason for the bad things in life; sometimes there ain’t one."

- Stephen King

"When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest."

- Stephen King

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

- Stephen King

"It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright."

- Stephen King

"I work until beer o'clock."

- Stephen King

"Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die."

- Stephen King

"The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well."

- Stephen King

"There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst."

- Stephen King

"Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

- Stephen King

"Remember: hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

- Stephen King

"You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

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

- Stephen King

""You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.""

- Stephen King

"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will"

- Stephen King

"If you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

"We never know which lives we influence, or when or why."

- Stephen King

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

- Stephen King

"The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset."

- Stephen King

""Get busy living or get busy dying.""

- Stephen King

"Amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

- Stephen King

"Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy."

- Stephen King

"It was outdoor detail — and May is one fine month to be working outdoors."

- Stephen King

""Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.""

- Stephen King

"Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween."

- Stephen King

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

- Stephen King

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

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

- Stephen King

"What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

""Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.""

- Stephen King

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

- Stephen King

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

- Stephen King

"Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle."

- Stephen King

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

- Stephen King

"If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to him. He had no friends, but he had his books and his dreams; he had his Revell models; he had a gigantic set of Lincoln Logs and built all sorts of stuff with them. His mother had exclaimed more than once that Ben’s Lincoln Logs houses looked better than some real ones that came from blueprints. He had a pretty good Erector Set, too. He was hoping for the Super Set when his birthday came around in October. With that one you could build a clock that really told time and a car with real gears in it. Lonely? he might have asked in return, honestly foozled. Huh? What? A child blind from birth doesn’t even know he’s blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it. It simply was, like his double-jointed thumb or the funny little jag inside one of his front teeth, the little jag his tongue began running over whenever he was nervous."

- Stephen King

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."

- Stephen King

"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."

- Stephen King

"Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts. You have been selfish."

- Stephen King

"But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal."

- Stephen King

"The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them."

- Stephen King

""Books are a uniquely portable magic.""

- Stephen King

"Description begins in the writer’s imagination but should finish in the reader’s."

- Stephen King

"You can. You should. And if you are brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

"I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There’s some pretty good homegrown dope. I’m sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses."

- Stephen King

"A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid."

- Stephen King

"But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays a while like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you."

- Stephen King

"An overnight success is ten years in the making."

- Stephen King

"Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own."

- Stephen King

"Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind."

- Stephen King

"Write a page a day. Only 300 words and in a year you have written a novel."

- Stephen King

"The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young."

- Stephen King

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done."

- 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

"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

- Stephen King

"Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow."

- 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

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

- Stephen King

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

- Stephen King

"The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better."

- Stephen King

"The scariest moment is always just before you start"

- Stephen King

"In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves."

- Stephen King

"In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves"

- Stephen King

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."

- Stephen King

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."

- Stephen King