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“I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.”

“Love among the ruins… I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If I know anything, I know scary. And giving this president and this out-of-control Congress two more years to screw up our future is downright terrifying. Thankfully, this national nightmare is one we can end.”

" My Book About A Really Mean Car That Kills People Was Pretty Scary. But Not As Scary As Those Scary Republicans http://bailey.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=244594", The Gaggle, Newsweek (24 October 2006)

“I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson.”

As quoted in an edition of I Am Legend (1995)
Context: I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me.

“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.”

“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”

“Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.”

“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

“We all float down here!”

Stephen King book It

Pennywise
Source: It (1986)

“It is the tale, not he who tells it.”