Stephen King Quotes

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Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.

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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

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He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

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He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

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Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

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

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

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He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

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Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.

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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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There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

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Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—

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Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

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And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

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Stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.

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There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

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You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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"Your name is John Coffey."
"Yes, sir, boss, like the drink only not spelled the same way."

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He looked like he could have snapped the chains that held him as easily as you might snap the ribbons on a Christmas present, but when you looked in his face, you knew he wasn't going to do anything like that.

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In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wireman says.

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Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

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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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