I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one


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STEPHEN KING
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as ...
STEPHEN KING
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING
The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
STEPHEN KING
Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
STEPHEN KING
God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
STEPHEN KING
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I alwa...
STEPHEN KING
Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
STEPHEN KING
Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.
STEPHEN KING
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, s...
STEPHEN KING
Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children,...
STEPHEN KING
Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
STEPHEN KING
It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en...
STEPHEN KING
When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
STEPHEN KING
Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, ...
STEPHEN KING
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffle...
STEPHEN KING
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic...
STEPHEN KING
I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost alw...
STEPHEN KING
Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expressio...
STEPHEN KING
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that s...
STEPHEN KING
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c...
STEPHEN KING
Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, ...
STEPHEN KING
Love leaves scars.
STEPHEN KING
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the tim...
STEPHEN KING
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KING
Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
STEPHEN KING
He killed them with their love
STEPHEN KING
Home is where they want you to stay longer.
STEPHEN KING
For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thin...
STEPHEN KING
He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Uta...
STEPHEN KING
She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
STEPHEN KING
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invaria...
STEPHEN KING
Get busy living or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING
Good books are for consideration after, too.
STEPHEN KING
And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
STEPHEN KING
Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
STEPHEN KING
I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, a...
STEPHEN KING