I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. – Stephen King
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. – Stephen King
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. – Stephen King
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. – Stephen King
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. – Stephen King
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. – Stephen King
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. – Stephen King
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. – Stephen King
Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. – Stephen King
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. – Stephen King
