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Stephen King Quotes - Page 9

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She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa

She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.

Color, Dancer, Mouths

Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.

Starting Up, Advice, Guy

The past is obdurate.

Past

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.1061, Simon and Schuster

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

Views, People, Tools

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

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Writing, Two, Want

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Get Well, Writing, Making Friends

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 19, 2013

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Writing, Caring, Tools

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

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Im Sorry, Sorrow, I Am Sorry

Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

Dreams age faster than dreamers.

Dream, Dreamer, Age

Stephen King (2001). “Dreamcatcher: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

Memories, Real, Add

Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.73, Titan Books

where the world ends is where you must begin

World, Ends

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.

Love, Heart, Thinking

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Writing, School, People

"The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Writing, Character, Trying

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

Art, Giving, Talent

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 20, 2014

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

Believe, Night, Men

Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.182, Anchor

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

Smart, Smart Person, Really Smart

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

Mind, Identity, Losing

Source: www.npr.org

She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

Ease, Safe, Calm

Stephen King (1999). “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

Teeth, World, Wanted

Stephen King (1999). “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

Children, Agreement, Adults

Stephen King (2002). “The Shining”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Real, Lying, Reading

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

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

Fiction, Literature, Ephemeral

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

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

Book, Order, Years

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

Fun, Having Fun, Audience

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