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Stephen King Quotes - Page 11

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I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns,

I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

Writing, Horror Stories, Guy

Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It`s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

Book, Play, Wife

"Stephen King has called Ira Levin-author of 'Rosemary's". Interview with Cheryl Lavin, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 7, 1991.

The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important.

Character, Writing, Important

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

Clouds, Light, Brain

Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Movie, Writing, Sisterhood

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Brave, Darkness, Be Brave

Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.1150, Simon and Schuster

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Long, Tricks, Teach

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Good Luck, Hair, Luck

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

Past, Ruthless

Stephen King (2016). “Rose Madder”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

Writing, Mean, Photograph

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

Kids, Heaven, Want

Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Home, Back Home, Pay

Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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

Kings, Writing, Heart

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Dog, Makeup, Emotional

Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Girl, Eye, Writing

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

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

Memories, Believe, Magic

Stephen King (2016). “Night Journey”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!

Red, Magenta

Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.580, Simon and Schuster

Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.

Believe, Writing, People

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

Sweat, Bed, Comfort

Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

Writing is seduction.

Kings, Writing, Seduction

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Dream, Halloween, Thinking

"The Mist". www.imdb.com. 2007.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

Relief, Tongue

Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.722, Simon and Schuster

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

Life, Giving Up, Men

Stephen King (2016). “Thinner”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Fall, What If, Dark Tower

Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Love Is, Men, Thinking

Stephen King (1999). “Bag Of Bones: A Novel”, p.583, Simon and Schuster

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