Trump’s tweets in his first hundred days draw a pretty clear portrait: he’s an almost textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder. – Stephen King
That this guy has his finger on the nuclear trigger is worse than any horror story I ever wrote. – Stephen King On Donald Trump.
In Busy It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living or get busy dying. – Stephen King Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. A story from – Different Seasons: Four Novellas.
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. – Stephen King
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. – Stephen King
We like to think about how smart we are. 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. – Stephen King
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. – Stephen King
I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become. – Stephen King
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. – Stephen King
I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. – Stephen King
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. – Stephen King
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. – Stephen King
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk. – Stephen King
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet. – Stephen King
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut. – Stephen King
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. – Stephen King
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. – Stephen King
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen. – Stephen King
No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. – Stephen King
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. – Stephen King
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‘Why god? Why me?’ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‘There’s just something about you that pisses me off.’ – Stephen King
