All the same, you don’t do it for money, or you’re a monkey. You don’t think of the bottom line, or you’re a monkey. You don’t think of it in terms of hourly wage, yearly wage, even lifetime wage, or you’re a monkey. In the end you don’t even do it for love, although it would be nice to think so. You do it because to not do it is suicide.

— Stephen King

Stephen King Quotes

Fright and loss leave residue.

— Stephen King

Feelings are like breathing, they come in and go out.

— Stephen King

He taught me a lot. But before the teaching, he listened.

— Stephen King

God doesn’t have a plan, He throws pickup sticks.

— Stephen King

Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It’s the other way around, that’s the joke.

— Stephen King

I think tempus est umbra in mente is a better one. Roughly translated, it means time is a shadow in the mind.

— Stephen King

Sometimes, the past don’t rest so easy. Why else do people study history?

— Stephen King

I thought of asking her if it freaked her out to look up at night and see the stars and know they go on forever and ever, but didn’t bother. I just said no. You get used to marvelous things. You take them for granted. You can try not to, but you do. There’s too much wonder, that’s all. It’s everywhere.

— Stephen King

Monster dog. Like Cujo in that movie.

— Stephen King

I wish I had looked longer, but I don’t blame myself. You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?

— Stephen King

He waits. The time passes. It always does.

— Stephen King

There’s always someone at fault, which is not the same as blame.

— Stephen King

And always let your conscience be your guide.” – Blue Fairy.

— Stephen King

The ring rolled down the gutter and disappeared into a sewer grate, and there it remained for a long, long time. But not forever. In Derry, things that disappear into the sewer system have a way – an often unpleasant one – of turning up.

— Stephen King

Grits ain’t groceries and revenge don’t pay the bills.

— Stephen King

Did you know that you could sit in front of a screen or a pad of paper and change the world? It doesn’t last, the world always comes back, but before it does, it’s awesome. It’s everything.

— Stephen King

Sometimes the most horrible things are what give us strength.

— Stephen King

Probably on one of those NPR shows where everyone sounds smart and full of Prozac.

— Stephen King

Hey, the fact that no one’s used a nuclear weapon on actual living people since 1945 suggests there has to be something on our side. Sooner or later someone will, of course, but over half a century... that’s a long time.

— King Stephen

Better to be dead than to be lost.

— King Stephen
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