Stephen King Quotes

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Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.

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Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

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What if you're right? Husbands die everyday, Delores, why, one is probably dying right now while you're sitting here weeping.

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

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How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.

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On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

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She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.

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I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

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Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

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That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

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What can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.

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Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

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Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

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I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

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Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

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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.

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It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.' Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.

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I will write about all of this one day, he thinks, and knows it's just a dawn thought, an after-dreaming thought. But it's nice to think so for a while in the morning's clean silence, to think that childhood has its own sweet secrets and confirms mortality, and that mortality defines all courage and love. To think that what has looked forward must also look back, and that each life makes its own imitation of immortality: a wheel.
Or so Bill Denbrough sometimes thinks on those early mornings after dreaming, when he almost remembers his childhood, and the friends with whom he shared it.

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He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride—if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

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Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

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Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

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The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

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I'm going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee!

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They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

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Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

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Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

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Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

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Born in Lust, Turn to Dust. Born in Sin, Come on In

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A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

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