Stephen King Quotes

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“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”

“High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”

“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”

“The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows”

“Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”

“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”

“Time's the thief of memory”

“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”

“I tend to scare myself.”

“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”

“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”

“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.”

“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”

“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.”

“Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.”

“Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”

“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”

“Do you drink?"
"Of course, I just said I was a writer.”

“Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.”

“the only mortal sin is giving up.”

“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.”

“If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.”

“I write to find out what I think.”

“A coward judges all he sees by what he is.”

“Sometimes dead is better”

“A person can't change all at once.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”

“The most important things are the hardest to say”

“I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.”

“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”

“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.”

“Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”