Stephen King Quotes

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  Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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  Hate, Real, Winning

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 26, 2013

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• Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

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  Hopeful, Prisoner

  "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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  Travel, Writing, Worst Moments

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• you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

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  Positive, Fear, Cheer Up

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

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  Liars, Lying, Being Lied

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

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• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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  Inspirational, Life, Movie

  Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

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• Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

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  Courage, Inspiration, Fighting

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

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  Book, Judging, Want

  Stephen King (2008). “Night Shift”, p.162, Anchor

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• Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

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  Teeth, Poet, Bites

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• Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

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  Perfect, Awareness, Paranoia

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

  Stephen King

  Faithful

  "Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More". Interview with James Parker, www.theatlantic.com. April 12, 2011.

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

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  Strength, Bullying, Don't Give Up

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

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• Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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  Inspirational, Hope, Redemption

  "'Different Seasons' ('Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption')". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

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  Halloween, Keys, Awful

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.315, Anchor

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• It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

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  Inspirational, Life, Night

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2419, Simon and Schuster

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• What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

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  Smart, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

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• When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

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  Giving Up, Library, Failing

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

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  Differences, Damnation, Sometimes

  Stephen King (2016). “Coffey on the Mile”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Littles, Asylums

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

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• Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

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  Kings, Writing, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 10, 2013

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• Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

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  Kings, Writing, Doors

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

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  Family, Jobs, Humor

  "Storm of the Century". Drama, Fantasy, Horror, 1999.

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• No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

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  Fake People, Heart, Bad Friend

  Stephen King (1987). “It: 2”, Signet

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• People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

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  People, Mad, Trying

  "The Stand". Book by Stephen King, September 1978.

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