26 Quotes by Stephen King
- People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
- You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
- When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
- We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
- The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
- The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
- The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
- The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
- Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
- Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
- No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
- It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
- I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
- I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
- I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
- He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
- God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
- Get busy living, or get busy dying.
- Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
- The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
- Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
- Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
- Talent is a lot cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the succesfful one is a lot of hard work.
- Books are a uniquely portable magic; unleash those pages and watch ordinary life turn extraordinary.
- Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to Work.
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