Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Stephen King Quotes - Page 20

All Quotes Accidents Advertising Age Art Beer Belief Bones Boredom Bullshit Business Cancer Character Childhood Children Choices Coincidence College Country Crime Culture Dad Dancing Darkness Death Depression Devil Doubt Drinking Dying Earth Eternity Evil Expectations Failing Fear Feelings Fighting Film Friendship Fun Funny Giving Giving Up Growing Up Halloween Happy Endings Hard Work Hate Heart Heaven Home Hope Horror House Hurt Imagination Inspiration Inspirational Intelligence Jesus Journey Joy Judging Judgment Kissing Language Laughter Leaving Letting Go Life Listening Literature Logic Loneliness Losing Love Luck Lying Madness Magic Memories Mercy Moon Morning Motivational Myth Optimism Pain Past Pride Purpose Quitting Rain Reading Reality Redemption Religion Responsibility Risk Running Sadness Sanity School Seduction Sin Skins Sleep Son Sorrow Soul Struggle Style Summer Talent Teaching Telepathy Terror Time Today Truth Understanding Universe Waiting Wall War Water Wife Winning Work Worry Writing

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

Memories, Race, Wind

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

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

Children, Kids, Thinking

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

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

Real, Choke

Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

Children, Writing, People

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

I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed."

Long, People, Care

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

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

Film, Mediums, Supposed To Be

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

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.

Dog, Fate, Boys

The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy," she told herself complacently. "The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.

Eagles, Giving, Four

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.717, Anchor

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

Air, Smell, Church

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Writing, Thinking, People

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Kids, Being A Kid, Dies

Stephen King (2016). “Christine”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

Men, Long, Wheels

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1645, Anchor

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Thinking, Views, People

"Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More". Interview with James Parker, www.theatlantic.com. April 12, 2011.

Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?

Dream, Heart, Sight

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

Success, Cutting, Knives

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

Eye, Yelling, People

Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.

Men, Thinking, Ideas

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

Lonely, Jobs, Believe

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

Reading, Creative, Checkouts

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

Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.

Jobs, Talking, Long

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

Character, Writing, Voice

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

Book, Reading, Writing

So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

Writing, Doors, Water

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.

Writing, Roots, Magic

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

You May Also Like: