Quote

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

Stephen King

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
Actor
Author
Columnist
Director
Film Director
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Teacher
Television Producer
Writer
Portland
Maine
Stephen Edwin King
Richard Bachman
John Swithen
Ever
Hardly
Work
Shut
People
Along
Sort
Eyes
Creative
Yelling
Eye
Rolling
Best
Charge

More quotes by Stephen King

Image
Without story books is like a person with no soul.
Stephen King
Image
He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.
Stephen King
Image
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
Stephen King
Image
If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.
Stephen King
Image
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
Stephen King
Image
Zombies are the new vampire.
Stephen King
Image
Do you believe in an afterlife? the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. I think this is it.
Stephen King
Image
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
Stephen King
Image
Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
Stephen King
Image
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
Stephen King
Image
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
Image
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
Stephen King
Image
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.
Stephen King
Image
Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.
Stephen King
Image
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Stephen King
Image
I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.
Stephen King
Image
It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
Stephen King
Image
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
Stephen King
Image
The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.
Stephen King
Image
True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Stephen King