You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

—Stephen King

About Stephen King

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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. In a career spanning six decades, he has written approximately 200 short...

More quotations from Stephen King

You must not come lightly to the blank page.

—Stephen King

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

—Stephen King

Some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue—when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap—I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they are precious.

—Stephen King in Joyland

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

—Stephen King in Joyland

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

—Stephen King in Joyland

More quotations tagged with “laughter”

Laughter is inner jogging.

—Norman Cousins

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

—Michael Pritchard

He who laughs, lasts!

—Mary Pettibone Poole

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

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