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Stephen King Quotes - Page 19

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People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Inspirational, Motivational, Book

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Ghost, Mystery, Crime

"Stephen King reverts to type with new book Joyland" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2012.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

Might, Good Enough, Periods

"The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished".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

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Jobs, Ideas, Shows

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Kids, Thinking, Parent

Stephen King (2016). “Christine”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?

Couple, Writing, Wind

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

Dream, Nuts, People

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Writing, Members, Polite

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.

Spring, Book, Writing

"A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.

Beach, Wife, Missing

Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.

Fortune, Acknowledge, Good Fortune

The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.

Genre Is, Delicate Things, Horror Genre

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Writing, Done, Force

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Powerful, Ideas, Firsts

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

Lying, Firsts, Lasts

Stephen King (2006). “The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla”, p.17, Hachette UK

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Art, Lying, Chance

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.

Doors, Lord

All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

Believe, Dark, Sunshine

Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody

Hurt, Men, Littles

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.394, Simon and Schuster

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.

Men, Brain, Body

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Fall, Home, Kids

Stephen King (1987). “It: 2”, Signet

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

Emotion, Blind

Stephen King (2008). “Night Shift”, p.16, Anchor

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end.

Religious, Believe, Thinking

Stephen King (2017). “Pet Sematary: A Novel”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.

Writing, Two, Hours

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

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Life, Beautiful, Truth

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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