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Stephen King Quotes - Page 14

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Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current

Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

Attitude, Business, Believe

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.

Fall, Spiders, Stones

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

Book, Writing, Play

Stephen King (2017). “Hearts in Atlantis”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

Girl, Creepy, Mind

Stephen King (2016). “Desperation”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

Tea, Use, Drink

I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

Sleep, Happy Life, Night

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

Hurt, Pain, People

Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.119, Titan Books

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

Caring, Harder, Packages

Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing.

Believe, Definitions, Seeing

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

Unhappy, Hard Life, Ifs

Stephen King (2016). “Firestarter”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Ideas, America, Bullshit

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane.

Happiness, Prayer, Dark

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend

Unhappy, Sometimes, Accidents

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

Believe, Should Have, Phrases

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

We all float down here!

Floats

Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

Life, Hope, Pain

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Reading, Writing, Two

"On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft". Book by Stephen King, 2000.

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Men, Black, Desert

Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth (2013). “Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Man In Black”, p.137, Marvel Entertainment

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Fiction, Coincidence, Sometimes

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.

Bystanders, Blood, Brain

"Stephen King: why the US must introduce limited gun controls" by Stephen King, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Inspirational, Life, Real

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

Long, Long Time

She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

Adults, Wavelength, Way

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.557, Anchor

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

People, Secret, Together

Stephen King (2002). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, Scribner

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

Cost, Ifs

Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

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