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“And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night… and what your dreams are like.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

“Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

“All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Stephen King in introduction.
Source: Pet Sematary (1983)

“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.”

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

“They were close to the end of the beginning…”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“Want a balloon?”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

“When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.”

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”

Stephen King book The Eyes of the Dragon

Source: The Eyes of the Dragon

“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”

Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other… except through faith.”

Stephen King book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

“Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.”

“But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining (1977)
Context: Danny? You listen to me. I’m going to talk to you about it this once and never again this same way. There’s some things no six-year-old boy in the world should have to be told, but the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. The world’s a hard place, Danny. It don’t care. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don’t love you, but your momma does and so do I. You’re a good boy. You grieve for your daddy, and when you feel you have to cry over what happened to him, you go into a closet or under your covers and cry until it’s all out of you again. That’s what a good son has to do. But see that you get on. That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

“Time and tide wait for no man.”

“because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.”

Stephen King book Duma Key

Source: Duma Key

“I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.”

“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair… Come to it any way but lightly.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”

Stephen King book Rose Madder

Source: Rose Madder

“You can't be careful on a skateboard.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It