Stephen King Long Quotations

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.

Long days and pleasant nights

I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.

When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.

She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed."

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?