Stephen King: Timing

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

Stephen King

Variant: Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Variant: Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
Source: The Green Mile

“I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

The Green Mile (1996)
Context: I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin' to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I cain't.

“Time's the thief of memory”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

Stephen King

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“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.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“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.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“Talk had faded with the daylight. The silence that set in was oppressive. The encroaching dark, the groundmist collecting into small, curdled pools…for the first time it seemed perfectly real and totally unnatural, and he wanted either Jan or his mother, some woman, and he wondered what in the hell he was doing and how he ever could have gotten involved. He could not even kid himself that everything had not been up front, because it had been. And he hadn't even done it alone. There were currently ninety-five other fools in this parade.”

Stephen King book The Long Walk

The Long Walk (1979)

“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.”

Stephen King

“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.”

Stephen King

“The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.”

Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)

“I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

“You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.”

Stephen King

“The mystery of the universe is not time but size.”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Variant: The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
Source: The Gunslinger

“She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“Time heals all wounds.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Misattributed
Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

“When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.”

Stephen King book Rage

Source: Rage