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Stephen King Quotes - Page 25

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If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

Dimples, Scar, Japanese Proverbs

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

Love, Looks, Dimples

Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.580, Simon and Schuster

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Fear, People, Reason Why

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

New York, Echoes, Cities

"Transcript: Nightline's Interview With Stephen King". Interview With Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. November 15, 2007.

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

Water, Mouths, Body

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.857, Anchor

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.

Real, College, Break Through

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

Gun, Men, Laughing

Stephen King (2006). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, p.238, Hachette UK

I am your number one fan.

Numbers, Fans, Horror

Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

Lying, Leaving

Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

Eye, Imagination, Laughing

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.

Fun, Nice, Fall

Stephen King (1979). “The Dead Zone”

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

Wind, Cyclones, Barns

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

Eggs, Shoes, Tree

He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

Lonely, Hunting, Cells

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.280, Anchor

So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!

Crash, Bash, Gardener

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

Heart, Mind, Hurtful

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

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

Home, Dancing, Moon Rise

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

He sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls.

Skulls, Thrones, Made

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Years, Boredom, Said

Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.19, Titan Books

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

Suicide, Suicidal, Air

Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.831, Simon and Schuster

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.

Letting Go, Writing, Needs

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

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

Ideas, Sometimes, Shows

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

Believe, Sight, Firsts

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

Writing, Secret, Done

Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

Wall, Writing, Simple

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.17, Anchor

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