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Stephen King Quotes - Page 44

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I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

Writing, Roots, Airborne

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.

Fun, Believe, Writing

When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill.

Writing, Character, Tasks

"Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More". Interview with James Parker, www.theatlantic.com. April 12, 2011.

It's up to men to build things ... it's up to God to blow them down.

Blow, Men

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

Kissing, Pie, Cheese

"Firestarter". Book by Stephen King, 1980.

Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

Arise, Terror

1981 Danse Macabre.

I believe there is an unseen world all around us.

Believe, Unseen, World

Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?

Queens, Ice Cream, Dairy

"The Stand". Book by Stephen King, 1978.

Some things it don't pay to be curious about.

Pay, Curious

Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

Money can't buy off the lightning.

Lightning

Stephen King (2016). “The Dead Zone”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.

Children, Real, Stupid

In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.

Strong, Dark, Light

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

Writing, Trying, Paint

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

Pray for rain while digging a well.

Rain, Digging, Praying

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

Gun, Rocks, Doors

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

And Love, Embarrassment, Should

Twitter post from Jun 30, 2015

It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.

Dream, Sweet, Pain

Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's the kind of book that's impossible to put down once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night. Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this one high on your list.

Book, Reading, Character

Pain is the biggest power of love.

Pain, Power Of Love

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

Ego, Lines, Certain

Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Believe, Character, Writing

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.

Sex, Writing, Thinking

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

Past, Want

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

Gone

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

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

Strong, Echoes, Stories

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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