Stephen King quotes - page 5

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. (Stephen King)
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read. View quote
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head. View quote
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A person can't change all at once. View quote
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If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't. View quote
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Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird. View quote
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Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up. View quote
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It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family. View quote
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Time's the thief of memory. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. (Stephen King)
there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst. View quote
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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't. View quote
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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you. View quote
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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. View quote
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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. View quote
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Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all. View quote
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In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling. View quote
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She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. (Stephen King)
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. View quote
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If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours. View quote
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Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. View quote
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If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library. View quote
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