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Stephen King Quotes - Page 2

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If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

Writing, Stuff, Ifs

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

Waiting, Library, Today

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Kings, Writing, Optimism

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Do it for joy and you can do it forever

Joy, Forever, Can Do

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Strength, Bullying, Don't Give Up

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1645, Anchor

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Running, Men, Years

Stephen King (1996). “Coffey on the Mile”, New Amer Library

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

Writing, Formulas

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Inspirational, Writing, Procrastination

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

Meaningful, Philosophical, Thinking

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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.

Letting Go, Thorns, Hard To Let Go

Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.94, Titan Books

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

Sometimes, Embers, Campfire

Stephen King (2016). “Coffey's Hands”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

Don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need.

Giving, Needs, Give Me

For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

Heart, School, Emotional

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

Writing, Mind, Left Alone

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Teenager, Being A Teenager, Ifs

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Love, Friendship, Fake People

"The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

Dark, Found, Wander

Stephen King (2017). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Stories, Lines, Want

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Kings, Writing, Interesting

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

Some things were better lost than found.

Lost, Found

Stephen King (2016). “The Dead Zone”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

To write is human, to edit is divine.

Writing, Divine, Humans

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

Reputation, Good Reputation

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Im Sorry, Sorrow, I Am Sorry

Stephen King (1974). “Carrie: A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power”, Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada

Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Falling In Love, Fear, Home

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

Thinking, Littles, Asylums

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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