62 result(s) for Stephen King Quotes.
"We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other… except through faith."
"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."
"I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better after all."
"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
"I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character- driven."
"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all."
"The best way to develop your imagination is to read a lot."
"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."
"The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out, The Horror, and The Horrordy."
"It's hard being left behind. (...) So the trick is not to be left behind."
"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
"Happiness isn't a thing in itself; it's only a contrast with something that isn't happiness."
"Sooner or later, even the fastest runners have to stand and fight."
"There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst."
"We like to kid ourselves that we're in control, but sometimes fate takes over."
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
"The best way to develop your writing is to write."
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"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it, and hell is only a poor synonym."
"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries."
"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end, there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
"Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again."
"Sooner or later, everything you love will die."
"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not that much better after all."
"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
"I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose."
"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
"We lie best when we lie to ourselves."
"The most important things are the hardest things to say."
"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."
"The only requirement is the ability to remember every scar."
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"They were close to the end of the beginning..."
"I think that we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better, after all."
"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."
"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
"Tomorrow is the day the adult world begins. Well, for me anyway. Good thing. I don't think I could take much more of my adolescence."
"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet."
"Books are uniquely portable magic."
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."
"You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
"Sooner or later, everything old is new again."
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
"It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns, it's hard to let go. Maybe especially then."
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."
"It's a dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we'll dance anyway, you and I. Especially in the Dark. May I have the pleasure?"
"There's more to life than writing. It's just that I can't think of what it is."
"Kill the angel. Beget the demon."
"We make reality out of chaos. We bring an order, a shape."
"The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows."
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