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Best 78 Quotes by Stephen King – Page 2 of 3

“I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.”

“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.”

“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”

“I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.”

“I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.”

“I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.”

“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. Simple as that.”

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

“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.”

“In real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”

“In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.”

“It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.”

“It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.”

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

“Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.”

“Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.”

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“I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind.

I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.”


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“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”

“People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language – it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.”

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

“Sometimes being a b*tch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human f*ckery.”

“That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.”

“The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.”

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“Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.”


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