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Stephen King Quotes - Page 30

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Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and

Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.

Two, People, Together

"Stephen King, Marriage Counselor? Yes... If Your Lover's a Psycho Killer". Interview with Jonathan Lees, www.complex.com. October 3, 2014.

I think we'd all like to believe that after we shuffle off this mortal coil, that there's going to be something on the other side because for most of us, I know for me, life is so rich, so colorful and sensual and full of good things, things to read, things to eat, things to watch, places to go, new experiences, that I don't want to think that you just go to darkness.

Believe, Thinking, New Experiences

"Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside people, like in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The other kind of evil is predestined evil. It falls on you like a stroke of lightning. That's the scary stuff, but, in a way, it's the stuff you don't have to worry about. I gotta worry whether or not I'm getting cavities. I gotta worry about whether cigarettes are giving me cancer. Those are things I can change. Don't give me lightning out of a clear sky. If that hits me I just say, "That's probably the way God meant it to be."

Cancer, Fall, Sky

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Writing, Simple, Tools

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.

Jobs, Dirty, Men

To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.

Thinking, Tv Shows, World

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

I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.

Dare, Leading Me, I Can

Stephen King (2016). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Book, Good Book, Consideration

Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Memories, Journey, Bases

Stephen King (2001). “Dreamcatcher: A Novel”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

Miracle, Birth

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...

Stephen King (2002). “Pet Sematary”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

Belief, Talent, Telepathy

"Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand.

Arms, Helping, Host

Stephen King, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (2011). “The Stand Vol. 5: No Man's Land”, p.166, Marvel Entertainment

Disney cartoons are all rated G. It's really funny. There are kids all over the world who still have complexes over Bambi's father getting shot by the hunter and Bambi's mother getting crisped. But that's the way it's always been. This is the sort of material that appeals to kids. Kids understand it instinctively. They grip it.

Mother, Father, Kids

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

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

Book

Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.

Heart, Winter, Fire

Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?

Fire, Ice, Darkness

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist

Technology, Night, Ozone

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

Believe, Past, Men

Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.

Karma, Ideas, Ants

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

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.

Father, Home, Kids

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

I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.

Character, Writing, Thinking

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

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

Writing, Details, Description

Stephen King (2001). “On writing: a memoir of the craft”

Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

Dream, Morning, Writing

I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.

Bridges, Long, Want

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