Stephen King Quotes About Listening

Quotes about: Listening

• He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.

  Stephen King

  Quilts, Dark, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

• No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Listening To Others, Should Have

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

• Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Reading, Eye

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

• The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

• Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

  Stephen King

  Listening, Mud, Faces

  Stephen King (2016). “Gerald's Game”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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