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Stephen King Quotes about Lying

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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Liars, Lying, Being Lied

Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Trust, Liars, Lying

Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Lying, Writing, Kids

Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

Lying, Said Life, Way

Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

Lying, Oil, Giving

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1452, Anchor

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Real, Lying, Reading

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

Lying, Giving, Information

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Philosophy, Lying, Faults

Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

Lying, Firsts, Lasts

Stephen King (2006). “The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla”, p.17, Hachette UK

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Art, Lying, Chance

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

Funny, Lying, Beer

Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

Lying, Leaving

Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Lying, Dark Tower, Truth Is

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!

Lying, Men, Two

Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower I (MTI): The Gunslinger”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too.

Brother, Lying, Recovery

Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger.

Lying, Confused, Men

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

Lying, Bleeding, Towns

Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.112, Anchor

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

Business, Lying, Mean

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

Lying

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Half”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.

Couple, Lying, Dirty

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

Life, Lying, Fiction

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

Sorry, Lying, I Can

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

Lonely, Wall, Lying

Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

Lying, Deceit

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

Life, Stars, Lying

Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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