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“The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.”

Source: Wolves of the Calla

“Explanations are such cheap poetry.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else.

Wash the car, maybe.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

“I started after him… and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was."
"Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly.
"It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

“Love leaves scars.”

Stephen King book Joyland

Joyland

“We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.”

Stephen King book The Dead Zone

Source: The Dead Zone 1979

“The thought process can never be complete without articulation.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.”

Stephen King book Joyland

Source: Joyland

“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining (1977)

“Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining

“I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

“Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining (1977)

“Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.”

Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole

“In the Land of Memory the time is always.
In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick… but their hands never move.
There is an Unfound Door
(O lost)
and memory is the key which opens it.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

Source: Song of Susannah

“On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Variant: No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Source: Different Seasons

“Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“That’s how you know you’re home, I think, no matter how far you’ve gone from it or how long you’ve been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival