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Stephen King Quotes - Page 23

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They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

Dark Tower, Ends, Gunslinger

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

Dream, Sweet, Brevity

Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.841, Simon and Schuster

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Thinking, Want, Places In Your Life

"The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished".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

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

Tree, Backyards, October

Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

Love, Love Is, Enough

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.

Writing, Light, Paper

Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

Morning, Writing, Dark

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

I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.

Winning, Thinking, People

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

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

Writing, Thinking, Phobia

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

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

Book, Years, Insane

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

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

Kissing, Would Be, Found

Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...

Simple, Thinking, Race

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

Thinking, Process, Articulation

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1249, Anchor

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

Fall, Evil, Waiting

Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.

Lonely, Pain, Rain

Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

Stuff, Bears, Plans

Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Stories, Sometimes, Cigar

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

Death is when the monsters get you.

Death, Monsters

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Home, Writing, School

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Writing, Secret, Shadow

Stephen King (1999). “Bag Of Bones: A Novel”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Jobs, Writing, Islands

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Art, Book, Writing

"On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft". On Living: A Postscript, 7. Book by Stephen King, 2000.

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad.

Book, Writing, Bullshit

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

Thinking, Stories, Telling Stories

Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (2005). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, Scribner Book Company

But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.

Artist, People, Actors

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Half”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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