Quote

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

Stephen King

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stephen King
Age: 76
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
Understand
Use
Much
World
People
Already
Hurt
Religion
Pain

More quotes by Stephen King

Image
Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
Stephen King
Image
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Stephen King
Image
Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.
Stephen King
Image
It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.
Stephen King
Image
C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.
Stephen King
Image
Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
Stephen King
Image
You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King
Image
never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.
Stephen King
Image
Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.
Stephen King
Image
The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.
Stephen King
Image
no knowledge obtained without risk
Stephen King
Image
I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.
Stephen King
Image
Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.
Stephen King
Image
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
Stephen King
Image
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
Stephen King
Image
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Stephen King
Image
Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.
Stephen King
Image
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
Stephen King
Image
Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land? It was beautiful, the gunslinger said. There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.
Stephen King
Image
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.
Stephen King