"There was nothing … and nothing … and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave ove...












Fiction is the truth inside a lie.
More Stephen King quotes
"Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
"I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to de...
"It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut—it’s the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and unders...
"The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy pl...
"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what...
"A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed ...
"...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.
"The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed