Stephen King: Likeness

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

“It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.”

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

“Nobody likes a clown at midnight”

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

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

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

“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”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high… but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”

“I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.”

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

“The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.”

“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”

“Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair”

“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”