Stephen King: Trending quotes (page 26)

“But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! People don’t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.”

“I'll see you.'
He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.”

“I'm not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what waswith me. What I was lacking.”

“I write for love, but love doesn’t pay the bills.”

“When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.”

“There will be water if God wills it.”

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

“Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.”

“I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.”

“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”

“Kill if you will, but command me nothing!”

“By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”

“It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.”

“Creepy as hell. You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer?”

“When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought”

“The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.”

“The crazy people of the world… shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.”

“Ka works and the world moves on.”