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Stephen King Quotes - Page 10

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There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal Once upon a time.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

Once Upon A Time, Happy Endings, Mets

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

Dark, World, Neon

Stephen King (2016). “Firestarter”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

Book, Together, Good Book

Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

Life, Long, Waiting

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

Basketball, Optimistic, Player

Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

Writing, People, Syntax

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

Mother, Jobs, Children

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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.

Laughter, Thinking, Years

Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

Writing, Telepathy

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

Loyalty, Running, Art

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

Night, Stories, World

Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

Dream, School, Doors

Stephen King (2016). “Cujo”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

Memories, Ocean, Redemption

I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'

Writing, Creating, House

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Kings, Book, Writing

"Beyond cuts: the many roles of a writer's editor" by Nell Frizzell, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2014.

You should never trust a person who prays in public.

Praying, Never Trust, Should

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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.

Book, Land, Giving

Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.

Jobs, Book, Cutting

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

Wings, Rose, Shadow

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Writing, Pages, Blank Pages

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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.

Stars, Moon, Shoes

Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

Writing, Shining, Fiction

Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.282, Anchor

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

Writing, Creating, World

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

Dark, Walking Dead, Looks

Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

Successful, Secret, Rebellion

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