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Stephen King Quotes - Page 13

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God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

Necks, Dark Tower, Dark Tower Series

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

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Funny, Writing, Literature

Stephen King (1989). “The Stephen King companion”

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

Feelings, Important, Size

"The Body". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

Life, Thinking, Numbers

"Rage". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

Thinking, Broken, Advice

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

World, Fool, Shortage

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

Running, Brother, Sea

"It". Book by Stephen King, 1986.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Osmosis, Together, Outsiders

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1187, Anchor

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

Writing, Character, Mad

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

Done, Eleven

Stephen King (1987). “It: 2”, Signet

I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.

Eye, Saws, Towns

"It: A Novel". Book by Stephen King, September 5, 2017.

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

Art, Kings, Writing

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark. May I have the pleasure?

Dark, Light, May

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

Eye, People, Guy

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.637, Simon and Schuster

Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

Rain, Moving, Fall

Stephen King (2008). “Night Shift”, p.11, Anchor

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

Children, Play, Childhood

Terror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around there’s nothing there.

Taken, Home, Light

What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read what they're trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they're trying to keep out of your brains. Because that's exactly what you need to know.

Kids, Eye, Mad

At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

School, Class, World

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

Writing, Thinking, Fans

"The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

Bored, Als, Persona

Stephen King (1999). “Un saco de huesos”

But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

Summer, Fall, Autumn

Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.200, Anchor

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

Done, Way, Lovecraft

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Writing, Listening To Others, Should Have

Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Teenage, Actors, Jars

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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