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“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

Stephen King

Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Variant: Either get busy living or get busy dying
Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

“Home is where they want you to stay longer.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.”

Stephen King

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”

Stephen King book Duma Key

Source: Duma Key

“Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63 (2011), Chapter Final Notes, page 1030,(First Scribner hardcover edition November 2011)
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“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one…”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

Stephen King

“I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.”

Stephen King

“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.”

Stephen King

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I am your number one fan.”

Stephen King book Misery

Source: Misery

“The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.”

Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)

“and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended”

Stephen King book Wizard and Glass

Source: Wizard and Glass

“I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones