Stephen King Quotes

Stephen King (95)

Birth:	21st September, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Producer, Screenwriter, Television Producer, Writer

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• And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

  Stephen King

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• Their lives had another forty seconds to run.

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• If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

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• For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

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• You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.

  Stephen King

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• Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

  Stephen King

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• Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, ‘Man, I’d really like to go out with her.’ But you can’t. At least not until the old idea is finished.

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  Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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• You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

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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.

  Stephen King

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• No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

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• Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

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• Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

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• Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

  Stephen King

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• The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

  Stephen King

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• Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

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• A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

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• I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

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• Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

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  When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “one word at a time.”

  Stephen King

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