Stephen King Want Quotations

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

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.

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Showrunning is a thing where you have to work with tons of different people. You have to schmooze people, you have to talk to network people. I don't want to do any of that.

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.

Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get? John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that? Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job?

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

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.

It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up