Stephen King Quotes

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It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

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You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair... Come to it any way but lightly.

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You'd be surprised what a person can live with, Dan said.

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Suicide proves guilt. He remembers Lieutenant Morrissey saying that, but Hodges himself has always had his doubts, and lately those doubts have been stronger than ever. What he knows now is that guilt isn't the only reason people commit suicide.
Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

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I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

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Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

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Son, you're probably too young to look for wisdom in anyone's words but your own, but I'll tell you this: love is the enemy... Yes. The poets continually and sometimes willfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a cannibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile; it is always hungry.
When asked what love eats:
Friendship. It eats friendship.

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The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

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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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Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know.

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Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

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She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

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Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

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

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Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

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You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

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Book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.

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A stupid man is more prone to cabin fever just as he's more prone to shoot someone over a card game or commit a spur-of-the-moment robbery. He gets bored. When the snow comes and there's nothing to do but watch TV or play solitaire and cheat when he can't get all the aces out. Nothing to do but bitch at his wife and nag at the kids and drink.

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I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

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But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

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