Stephen King

Stephen King

"Your hair is winter fire,January embers. My heart burns there, too."
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"Your hair is winter fire,January embers. My heart burns there, too."
Stephen King It
"The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I."
Stephen King The Shining
"Sometimes dead is better"
Stephen King Pet Sematary
"There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went."
Stephen King Doctor Sleep
"never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh."
Stephen King The Dark Tower
"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
Stephen King The Stand
"I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message."
Stephen King Bag of Bones
"If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea."
Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
Stephen King
"Words have weight."
Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
"If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind as something comes up the hall; we say yes, I agree that clouds often look like other things - fish and unicorns and men on horseback - but they are really only clouds. Even when the lightning flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on."
Stephen King
"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
Stephen King
"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
"When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest."
Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
"It is the tale, not he who tells it."
Stephen King
"Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up."
Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."
Stephen King
"If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway."
Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."
Stephen King Night Shift
"Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth."
Stephen King
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