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Stephen King Quotes - Page 45

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Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

Traps, Gunslinger

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

Orange, Losing, Silver

Stephen King (2006). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.

Bus Stops, Looks, Nebraska

no knowledge obtained without risk

Risk

Stephen King (2006). “Cell: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

Writing, Stories

I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.

Worry

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

Play, Want, Pay

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

Reading, Long, Way

Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

Tragedy, Way, Indecisive

STEPHEN KING (1977). “THE SHINING”

I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives: the parent who punches instead of kissing, the auto accident that takes a loved one, the cancer we one day discover living in our own bodies. If such terrible occurrences were acts of darkness, they might actually be easier to cope with. But instead of being dark, they have their own terrible brilliance. . . and none shine so bright as the acts of cruelty we sometimes perpetrate in our own families.

Real, Cancer, Believe

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

I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win.

Gun, Winning, Fruit

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.

Fire, Years, Water

All Thing Serve the Beam

Beam, All Things

Stephen King, Peter Straub (2012). “Black House: A Novel”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.

Believe, Matter, Ifs

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

Kings, Writing, Fans

You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.

Morning, Thinking, Light

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1479, Anchor

Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

Dust, Sky, Rose

Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.

Max, Woe

Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.

Trouble

Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

Thinking, People

Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.495, Simon and Schuster

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, "Jesus, that was a great special effect." The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

Jesus, Believe, Guy

Stephen King (2016). “Thinner”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

Lonely, Wall, Lying

Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.

Silly, Simple, Race

Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Time heals all wounds.

Get Well, Educational, Healing

Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

Book, Giving, Water

Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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