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Stephen King Quotes - Page 27

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When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

Stories, Knows

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.

Thinking, Stories, Made

Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

Dark, Hair, Shadow

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

Love, Heart, Beast

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

Panic, Flux, Situation

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.598, Simon and Schuster

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

Reality, Soul, Brain

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

Looks, Joints, Necks

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

To the devil with false modesty.

Devil, Modesty, False Modesty

Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.89, Anchor

Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be.

Character, Games, Care

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

Writing, Bathroom, Ifs

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

Mistake, Love Is, Sometimes

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

Reflection, Breakfast, Hunger

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

Kings, Towers, Honey

Stephen King, Peter Straub (2012). “Black House: A Novel”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

Teacher, Children, Believe

Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.1174, Simon and Schuster

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

Men, Two, Enemy

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

Mean, Thinking, Dimwits

Stephen King (2016). “The Mouse on the Mile”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Zero, Eternity, Mortality

Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

Depression, Reality, Glasses

Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do... and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat?

Thinking, Islands, Guy

I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

Pain, Debt Free, Two

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

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

Home, Shopping, Generations

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

Depression, Suicide, Madness

Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

Moved On, Done, World

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.727, Simon and Schuster

It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.

Wise, Book, Library

Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

School, Kids, Faces

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

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