Stephen King Quotes
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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
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I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I`m outside, writing, I`m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.
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But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.
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The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
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Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
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I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.
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and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended
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If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?
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When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist
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She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.
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Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.
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Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.
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In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.
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What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it's as good as it ever was.
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...it was more like bleeding than crying.
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Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
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Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
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They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.
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Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.
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You say true, I say thankya.
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Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
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What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
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Money talks, bullshit walks.
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I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.
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Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.
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Above all else, be consistent.
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There had never been a shortage of fools in the world
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