# Stephen King - Quotes: 267 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king ## Books - [Carrie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/carrie.md) — 23 quotes - [Danse Macabre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/danse-macabre.md) — 14 quotes - [Night Shift](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/night-shift.md) — 30 quotes - [On Writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/on-writing.md) — 32 quotes - [Song of Susannah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/song-of-susannah.md) — 9 quotes - [The Dark Tower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower.md) — 13 quotes - [The Drawing Of The Three](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-drawing-of-the-three.md) — 28 quotes - [The Gunslinger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-gunslinger.md) — 18 quotes - [The Langoliers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers.md) — 16 quotes - [The Waste Lands](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-waste-lands.md) — 10 quotes - [The Wind through the Keyhole](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-wind-through-the-keyhole.md) — 6 quotes - [Wizard and Glass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/wizard-and-glass.md) — 22 quotes - [Wolves of the Calla](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/wolves-of-the-calla.md) — 36 quotes - [‘Salem’s Lot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/salems-lot.md) — 10 quotes ## Recently added quotes > 'I can always feel the light. It's like heat inside my head.' [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers/i-can-always.md) > 'Second, people think better when their stomachs are full.' He shrugged. 'It's just a law of nature.' [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers/second-people-think.md) > It's like glimpsing a beautiful woman for just a moment in the back seat of a limousine - she looks even more beautiful than she really is because you know she's not yours, can never be yours. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers/its-like-glimpsing.md) > We're not even in the same year together, let alone the same room....except we are together. We're close. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/on-writing/were-not-even.md) > Any temporal dislocation west-east travellers feel goes the other way. They feel it's earlier than it should be. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers/any-temporal-dislocation.md) > I think we're all a little mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better-and maybe not all that much better, after all. p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/danse-macabre/i-think-were.md) > ...but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force... p. 92 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/danse-macabre/but-talent-is-a-dreadfully.md) > The danse macabre is a waltz with death. This is a truth we cannot afford to shy away from. Like the rides in the amusement park which mimic violent death, the tale of horror is a chance to examine what's going on behind doors which we usually keep double-locked. Yet the human imagination is not content with locked doors. Somewhere there is another dancing partner, the imagination whispers in the night - a partner in a rotting ball gown, a partner with empty eyesockets, green mold growing on her elbow-length gloves, maggots squirming in the thin remains of her hair. To hold such a creature in our arms? Who, you ask me, would be so mad? Well...? p. 366 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/danse-macabre/the-danse-macabre.md) > He reflected that people used the slide with much less coaxing and a lot more enthusiasm when there was a threat they could see - a hole in the fuselage or a fire in one of the portside engines. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers/he-reflected-that.md) > Monstrosity fascinates us because it appeals to the conservative Republican in a three-piece suit who resides within all of us. We love and need the concept of monstrosity because it is a reaffirmation of the order we all crave as human beings...and let me further suggest that it is not the physical or mental aberration in itself which horrifies us, but rather the lack of order which these aberrations seem to imply. p. 50 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/danse-macabre/monstrosity-fascinates-us-because.md) > He remembered a pilot telling him once, 'They pay us a hundred thousand dollars or more a year, Brian, and they really do it for just one reason. They know that in almost every pilot's career, there are thirty or forty seconds when he might actually make a difference. They pay us not to freeze when those seconds finally come.' [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers/he-remembered-a-pilot.md) > My mother knew I wanted to be a writer (with all those rejection slips hanging from the spike on my bedroom wall, how could she not?), but she encouraged me to get a teacher’s credential “so you’ll have something to fall back on. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/on-writing/my-mother-knew.md)