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Stephen King Quotes - Page 12

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Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Stories, Description, Reader

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

Men, Thinking, Self

Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Together, May, Reason

Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use-their only other use-is to kill people.

Fire, Two, People

Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.

Crazy, Years, Work Out

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

Believe, Paper, Needs

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

Stars, Moon, Sky

Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

Hurt, Pain, Tyrants

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

Memories, Fall, Eye

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Regret, Feelings, Guilt

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

Left Behind, Ill, Sooner Or Later

Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.662, Simon and Schuster

Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

Grief, Blunt, Edges

Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

Paintbrush, Draws, Knows

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

Heart, Years, Broken

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

Reading, Ties, Shoes

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

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

House, Plot, Stories

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Religious, Atheist, Religion

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

Jobs, Wheels, Turns

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

Forever, Parting, Knows

Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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.

Believe, Journey, Goal

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.817, Simon and Schuster

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

Interesting, Trying, Littles

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Eye, Want, Sometimes

Stephen King (2005). “The Colorado Kid”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

the look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek.

Running, Blue, Blood

Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.

Jobs, Children, Book

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

Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.

Kids, Thinking, Two

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

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