Stephen King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and six non-fiction books. He has written around 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. May his quotes inspire you to take action to make your dreams a reality.
1. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” Stephen King
2. “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” Stephen King
3. “The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.” Stephen King
4. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and got to work.” Stephen King
5. “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” Stephen King
6. “The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.” Stephen King
7. “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.” Stephen King
8. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” Stephen King
9. “Nothing was certain; there were many strange twists and devious turns as one hopped down the overgrown bunnytrail of life.” Stephen King
10. “Quiet people have the loudest minds.” Stephen King
11. “People think 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
12. “Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.” Stephen King
13. “When you are talented you do it whatever it is until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head.” Stephen King
14. “Our memories have voices too.” Stephen King
15. “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 those two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” Stephen King
16. “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” Stephen King
17. “Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always comes around to where you started again.” Stephen King
18. “Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” Stephen King
19. “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots on life.” Stephen King
20. “Remeber, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.” Stephen King
21. “Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” Stephen King
22. “If you can read and write, you can own the world.” Stephen King
23. “It’s alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.” Stephen King
24. “A story should entertain the writer too.” Stephen King
25. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” Stephen King
26. “The most important things are the hardest to say.” Stephen King
27. “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.” Stephen King
28. “Be a writer of the soul.” Stephen King
29. “When asked, how do you write? I invariably answer, one word at a time.” Stephen King
30. “When the time is gone, you can never get it back.” Stephen King
31. “People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.” Stephen King
32. “You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.” Stephen King
33. “Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches.” Stephen King
34. “I’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.” Stephen King
