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Stephen King Quotes

Total quotes: 136
“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Tagged: Writing as an Expression, Writing Quotes, Wordsmith, Literary Artisan
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: writer, Read, write
“It’s not the pain I’m afraid of; I know about the pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.”
— Stephen King, Rose Madder
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Misery
“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.”
— Stephen King, Joyland
Tagged: Letting Go, Pain, Holding On
“Wandering’s the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.”
— Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
Tagged: wandering, Explore
“It’s funny how when you were a kid, a day could last forever. Then you grow up, and all these years just seemed like a blink.”
— Stephen King, Hearts In Atlantis
Tagged: Growing Up, Childhood Memories, Memories in the Past, nostalgic
“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often”
— Stephen King, Salem's Lot
Tagged: Serenity, Tenacity, Mess Up, God, Stephen King Quotes
“I did something good for you just now. Before the sun goes down tonight, I want you to pass it on.”
— Stephen King, Mr. Mecedes
Tagged: kindness, Compassion, good deeds
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
— Stephen King, Awaken
“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth. The truth isn't always the safest course, but mostly it is.”
— Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes
Tagged: Honesty, Truth, tell the truth, Decisions, Right thing
“I know that the thing under my bed doesn’t exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won’t grab my ankle.”
— Stephen King, Night Shift
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Stephen King, On Writing, Writing Tips
“Sometimes...real love is silent as well as blind.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
Tagged: Love, real love, silence in love, blindness in love
“True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
— Stephen King, Carrie
Tagged: Sadness, True Love, Pain
“That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.”
— Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes
Tagged: History, Past, Past Pain, history's pain, Memories
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
— Stephen King, Joyland
Tagged: Past, Past Days, Memories, telling stories about the past, History, fiction
“Maybe there aren’t any such things as good friends 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.”
— Stephen King, It: A Novel
Tagged: Friendships, Friends, Person, Imperfection, Companion
“It always comes down to two choices; Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Living, Dying, Choices, Decisions
“Books can be as long as they need to be. A tweet should be short and sweet.”
— Stephen King
Tagged: Books, Tweet, Twitter, Millennial
“People say that where there’s life, there’s hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.
There is hope, therefore I live.”
— Stephen King, Revival
Tagged: Hope, Life, Living
“ I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.”
— Stephen King, An Interview with Stephen King
Tagged: Stephen King, Horror, How to be a writer, Artists
“It’s hard to find out you don’t know a person the way you thought you did. It’s hard to find out the face you thought you loved is only a mask.”
— Stephen King, Needful Things
Tagged: True Colors, Real Identity, Mask
“Hey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria--most of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh.”
— Stephen King
Tagged: Clowns, Killer Clowns
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”
— Stephen King, The Body
Tagged: Friends, Childhood, Friendship
“Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.”
— Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three
Tagged: Control, Power, surviving
“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...”
— Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three
Tagged: Identity, Personality, Wrong
“Friends come in and out of your life like busboys a a restaurant, did you ever notice that?”
— Stephen King, The Body
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Leaving, old friends
“I sometimes look at this typewriter and wonder when it's going to run out of good words. I don't want that to happen.”
— Stephen King, The Body
Tagged: writer, Writing, Words
“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”
— Stephen King, The Dead Zone
Tagged: humanity, Assholes, liars
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
— Stephen King, Everlasting Wisdom
Tagged: enemies, Friends, Honest And Truthful, Honesty
“There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
— Stephen King, Different Seasons: Four Novellas
Tagged: Hopeful, Life Quotes, Stephen King Quotes
“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you”
— Stephen King, Night Shift
Tagged: Judgment, Stephen King Quotes, Life Quotes
“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.”
— Stephen King, The Shining,
Tagged: How to be good at sex, For when things seem hard
“This is how we go on: one day a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time.”
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Tagged: creepy, Pain, Life, live, Living
“Practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Writing, Zen
“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity”
— Stephen King, Pet Sematary
Tagged: Horror, humanity, creepy
“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”
— Stephen King, More Good Words
Tagged: Family, Mourning, Death
“I remember them all. They’re all my friends, and some of them are my lovers, if you know what I mean.”
— Stephen King
Tagged: Writers, fiction, characters
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Stephen King, On Writing, Writing Tips
“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.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Stephen King, On Writing, Writing Tips
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