Stephen King: Idézetek angolul (oldal 3)

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”

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

“Nobody likes a clown at midnight”

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”

“there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.”

“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

“You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”

“Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.”

“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.”