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Stephen King Quotes - Page 22

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When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.

When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.

Writing, Player, Rocks

Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

Multiple Choice, Choices, Daily Life

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

Sleep, Watches

Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

Strong, Germs, Cold

Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Life, Ears, Speak

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

Feet, Feet And Walking, Grammar

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

Dream, Way, Dark Tower

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.

Leaving, Tools, Rooms

Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

Dream, Simple, Waking

Stephen King (2016). “Rose Madder”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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

Tough, Tough Life, Ifs

Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

Doubters will doubt to the end.

Doubt, Doubters, Ends

Stephen King (2007). “The Mist”, p.119, Penguin

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Heart, Long, Biggie

Stephen King (2006). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

Years, Wish, World

Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Reading, Glasses, Too Much

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

Fun, Littles, Logic

"Alan Wake: gaming's greatest Stephen King story" by Matthew Byrd, www.denofgeek.com. December 21, 2017.

Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.

Rain, Praying, Wells

Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

Coffee, Reading, Light

FaceBook post by Stephen King from May 02, 2013

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

Cat, Animal, Fire

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 30, 2013

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

Writing, Dressing Up, Clothes

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.

Believe, Gears, Machines

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.

Pain, World, Size

Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

Men, Needs, Bears

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

Funny, Lying, Beer

Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac.

Tv Shows, Weather, Ipads

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.

Feelings, Intellectual, Mind

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

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