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Stephen King Quotes - Page 8

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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Children, Doe, Ever After

Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2326, Simon and Schuster

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Reality, Firsts, Myth

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

Kings, House, Secret

Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.635, Anchor

I write to find out what I think.

Writing, Thinking

Stephen King (2005). “The Colorado Kid”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

Tears, Matter, Rave

Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

Love, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Jobs, Writing, Stories

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

Change, Lonely, Blue

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.654, Anchor

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Education, Kings, Book

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

Pain, Love You, Love Life

Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.703, Simon and Schuster

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

Sight, Boredom, Priorities

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.

Men, Wife, Good Wife

Stephen King (2016). “The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a letter that just seemed to go on and on. I poured out my whole heart in it, never looking back to see what I'd said because I was afraid cowardice would make me stop. I didn't stop, and when a voice in my head clamored that it would be madness to mail such a letter, that I would be giving her my naked heart to hold in her hand, I ignored it with a child's breathless disregard of the consequences.

Love, Dream, Children

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Cutting, Knives, Discipline

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.

Believe, People, Parent

Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.64, Titan Books

She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.

Memories, Hands, Smell

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

Beautiful, Appreciation, Essentials

Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.700, Simon and Schuster

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

Book, Long, Library

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Change, Time, Life Changing

Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

Mean, People, Creative

Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.

Book, Reading, Opportunity

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

Father, Heart, Eye

Stephen King (2006). “The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla”, p.152, Hachette UK

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.

Loneliness, Reality, Long

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

Lying, Oil, Giving

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1452, Anchor

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

Noses

Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.61, Anchor

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