Stephen King World Quotations

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

Ka works and the world moves on.

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.

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.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

I believe there is an unseen world all around us.

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

And then the world exploded.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.

where the world ends is where you must begin

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.