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Stephen King Quotes

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Travel, Writing, Worst Moments

The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.

Struggle, Hands, Soul

I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.

Thinking, Trouble, Given

Stephen King (2017). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Hopeful, Prisoner

"The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Hate, Real, Winning

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 26, 2013

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

Humorous, Anger

Stephen King (1999). “Bag Of Bones: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Motivational, Success, Encouragement

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

Answers, Simplest

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Positive, Fear, Cheer Up

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Liars, Lying, Being Lied

Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Wise, Stupid, Guy

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.152, Anchor

The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.

Character, Dark, Night

"Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

Life, People

Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Teeth, Poet, Bites

Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like "Hansel and Gretel," which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it.

Strong, Children, Kids

High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

Time's the thief of memory

Memories, Thieves, Deschain

Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

People, Saint, Three

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 07, 2014

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

Reading, Writing, Skills

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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

Kings, Writing, Doors

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

Sometimes, Breathe, Paragraph

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

Writing, Thinking, Years

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Art, Writing, Filled Up

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Kings, Writing, Imagination

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 10, 2013

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

Trust, Liars, Lying

Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

Smart, Mean, People

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

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