Stephen King Quotes About Bones

Quotes about: Bones

• When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Children, Writing

• The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Race, Wind

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.200, Anchor

• C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

  Stephen King

  Interesting Conversation, Brain, Bills

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

• He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Hunting, Cells

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.280, Anchor

• It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Language, Bones

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.487, Anchor

• Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

  Stephen King

  Pride, Necks, Bones

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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