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Stephen King Quotes - Page 31

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Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

Sorry, Luxury, Being Sorry

Stephen King, Peter Straub (2012). “The Talisman: A Novel”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.

Christmas, House, Be Good

Twitter post from Dec 24, 2013

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

Reading, Years

I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.

Dream, Taken, Night

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

Dream, Mind, Routine

Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

Reading, Writing, Self

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

People, Cost, Fiction

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

Country, Men, Cities

Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

Thinking, Nuts, Insanity

Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

Baby, Children, Stupid

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

Fleas, Lawyer, Human Nature

Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

Life, Real, Games

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

Skills, Fake, Bars

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Pride, Necks, Bones

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.

Broken, Spoons, May

Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.

Night, Coffins, Built

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.

Three, Down And, Wonderful

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.

Jobs, Tools, Stories

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

Tree, World, Enough

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion. There were bound to be crannies and storage spaces, most of them dusty and abandoned, some containing a few unpleasant relics you would just as soon you hadn't found. But that was no biggie. You either threw those relics out or took them to Goodwill.

Years, Storage Space, House

Stephen King (2014). “A Good Marriage”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

Real, Monsters, Needs

Stephen King (2002). “The Shining”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.

Country, Hate, Heart

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

Years, Long, Beard

Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2910, Simon and Schuster

I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too.

Brother, Lying, Recovery

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Home, Men, Opposites

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.569, Anchor

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