Stephen King Quotes
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“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen King
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.
— Stephen King
He was a romantic in his own harsh way ... yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
— Stephen King
“Politics always change. Stories never do.”
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“Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.”
— Stephen King
Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.
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Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody
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What he knows now is that guilt isn't the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.
— Stephen King
I don't want to hear the scary part. But at the same time she does want to hear the scary part, everyone wants to hear the scary part, we're all mad here, and her mother really did say that if you told your dreams they wouldn't come true, which meant you were supposed to tell the nightmares and save the good ones for yourself, hide them like a tooth under the pillow.
— Stephen King
People assume any twentieth-century white male writer must be an alcoholic.
— Stephen King
“Sure. Sure you have. I never forget a face.”
— Stephen King
As the twig is bent the bough is shaped, that was another old saying, and once a pretentious asshole, always a pretentious asshole.
— Stephen King
At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream.
— Stephen King
Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing.
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“But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn't always have a lot to do with objective truth.”
— Stephen King
I thought you were good, but you are not good. You are just a lying old dirty birdie.
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When he remembered to turn and look for it, the Talisman was gone.
— Stephen King
I fell in love with you, he said. That's why I said it. It happened even before you kissed me, I think.
— Stephen King
That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.
— Stephen King
“Ka works and the world moves on. Slightman”
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“When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. By”
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“You'll live in exile and die as you lived.”
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“Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.”
— Stephen King
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