Stephen King: Likeness

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“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”

Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”

Stephen King book Wizard and Glass

Source: Wizard and Glass

“I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.”

“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map…. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”

Stephen King book The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Without story books is like a person with no soul.”

“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It falls upon her.
Love is like dying.”

“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

“Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night… and what your dreams are like.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”

Stephen King book The Eyes of the Dragon

Source: The Eyes of the Dragon

“Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.”

Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole

“I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”

Stephen King book The Body

Variant: I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
Source: The Body

“I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

Variant: I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.