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“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”

Stephen King book Joyland

Source: Joyland

“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“Don't ask me silly questions
I won't play silly games
I'm just a simple choo choo train
And I'll always be the same.

I only want to race along
Beneath the bright blue sky
And be a happy choo choo train
Until the day I die.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Waste Lands

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.”

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”

“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common….”

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

Source: The Drawing of the Three

“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Under the Dome

“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“… stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”

Stephen King book It

Variant: And almost idly, in a kind of sidethought, Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Source: It (1986)

“Do it for joy and you can do it forever”

“I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.”

“A person can't change all at once.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“Sometimes dead is better”

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Source: Pet Sematary