Stephen King: Trending quotes (page 18)

“Explanations are such cheap poetry.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

“Love leaves scars.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”