Stephen King

Stephen King

"The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing."
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"The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing."
Stephen King
"He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet."
Stephen King
"Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—because those two reactions are rather close. Most things we laugh at are things that are really horrible, when you think about them. It’s funny and you don’t scream, as long as it’s not you. If it’s somebody else you can laugh."
Stephen King
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
Stephen King
"God makes it all come right in the end, that's what Johnnie told Dock Barker just before we parted company. I was raised a Christian-I admit I fell away a bit along my journey-and I believe that: we're stuck with what we have, but that's all right; in God's eyes, none of us are really much more than flies on strings and all that matters is how much sunshine you can spread along the way."
Stephen King
"You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered."
Stephen King
"You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!"
Stephen King
"Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story … to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all."
Stephen King
"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
Stephen King
"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time - or the tools - to write. Simple as that."
Stephen King
"...staring into thin air at thosethings only cats can see (Doctro Sleep)"
Stephen King
"It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost."
Stephen King
"When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down."
Stephen King
"I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you."
Stephen King
"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."
Stephen King
"When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds."
Stephen King
"The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season."
Stephen King
"Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given. And whenever I see a first novel dedicated to a wife (or a husband), I smile and think, There’s someone who knows.” Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough."
Stephen King
"There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids."
Stephen King
"I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),..."
Stephen King
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