Stephen King Quotes

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Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

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I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

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You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

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I don't want Church to be like all those dead pets! I don't want Church to ever be dead! He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have His own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

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I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

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Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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And the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.

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Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

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We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.

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Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

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The rest of it — and perhaps the best of it — is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

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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.

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You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all, sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that.

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Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

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Hearts can break. Yes. Hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

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A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

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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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The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

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As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.

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When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

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Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

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I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

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On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematery was appalling when it first came out on to the page.

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You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

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She was a grown up now, and she discovered that being a grown up was not quite what she had suspected it would be when she was a child. She had thought then that she would make a conscious decision one day to simply put her toys and games and little make-believes away. Now she discovered that was not what happened at all. Instead, she discovered, interest simply faded. It became less and less and less, until a dust of years drew over the bright pleasures of childhood, and they were forgotten.

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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

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No writer, painter, or actor — no artist — is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.

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A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

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FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

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