Stephen King: Trending quotes (page 4)

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Sometimes dead is better”