Stephen King: Likeness (page 2)

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”