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For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

Stephen King
Heart, School, Emotional

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Stephen King
Teenager, Writing, School

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.

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"The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished".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

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

Stephen King
Dream, School, Doors
Stephen King (2016). “Cujo”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

Stephen King
School, Class, World
Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Stephen King
Home, Writing, School

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

Stephen King
School, Kids, Faces
"Transcript: Nightline's Interview With Stephen King". Interview With Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. November 15, 2007.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

Stephen King
School, Administration, Skirts
Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

Stephen King
School, Thinking, Important
Stephen King (2000). “Carrie”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

Stephen King
School, Fire, People

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

Stephen King
Stars, Couple, School
Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.29, Anchor

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

Stephen King
Teaching, School, Brain

I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.

Stephen King
Couple, Reading, School
"A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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