Quotes by
Stephen King |
1947- , American author of horror & fantasy fiction
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Quotations
| • | Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter. 6 |
| • | Either get busy living or get busy dying. 5 |
| • | Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon. 4 |
| • | It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright. 4 |
| • | A story should entertain the writer, too. 3 |
| • | Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. 3 |
| • | Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. 3 |
| • | I had so many ideas. Jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out. 2 |
| • | The adverb is not your friend. 2 |
| • | Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win. |
| • | If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. |
| • | Has it ever occurred to you...that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming? |
| • | Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed. |
| • | If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. |
| • | Fiction is the truth inside the lie. |
| • | Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. |
| • | Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. |
| • | Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. |
| • | Nobody likes a clown at midnight. |
| • | I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. |
| • | Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions. |
| • | Quiet people have the loudest minds. |
| • | The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. |
