137 quotes
It's a depressingly masculine world we live in, Delores.
Dolores Claiborne (1992)
Life is more than just steering a course around pain.
Desperation (1996)
This inhuman place makes human monsters.
The Shining (1977)
Great events turn on small hinges.
The Institute (2019)
I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me.
an edition of I Am Legend (1995)
Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?
The Stand (1978)
Reality can take a flying f. at a rolling doughnut.
In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.
It (1986)
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
The Green Mile (1996)
What you buy is what you own, and sooner or later what you own will come back to you.
Pet Sematary (1983)
London was asleep…but London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy.
Crouch End (1980)
It takes a son of a bitch to change a habit.
Cat's Eye (1985)
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
On Writing : A Memoir Of The Craft (2000)
I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't.
The Green Mile (1996)
Real terror is the most physically debilitating of emotions. It saps the endocrines, dumps muscle-tightening organic drugs into the bloodstream, races the heart, exhausts the mind.
The Tommyknockers (1987)
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
The Shining (1977)
He looked at me fixedly. "I'll tell you this much, Dennis. If you're lying, you don't know you are."
Christine (1983)
Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.
The Shining (1977)
Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.
Everything's Eventual (2002)
God said take what you want ... and pay for it.