Stephen King Quotes - Page 49

• People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

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  Country, Song, Sweet

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.11, Titan Books

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• All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue -- when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap, the way Joyland Avenue did on a rainy day -- I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they are precious.

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  Real, Rainy Day, Thinking

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• The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

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  Darkness, Lasts, Good Times

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.199, Titan Books

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• My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

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  Father, Men, Example

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.100, Titan Books

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• They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

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  Running, Rocks, Tree

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.47, Anchor

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• Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

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  Drinking, Moral Fiber, People

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.234, Anchor

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• Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

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  Redemption, Want, Brooks

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

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• And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.

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  Stars, Looks, Matter

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.123, Anchor

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• ...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

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  Lying, Bleeding, Towns

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.112, Anchor

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• The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.

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  Lonely, Squares, Light

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

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  Men, Years, Sick

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.237, Anchor

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• That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

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  Reading, Class, Stories

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• He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

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  Believe, Sleep, Doctors

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

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  Writing, Details, Description

  Stephen King (2001). “On writing: a memoir of the craft”

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• Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

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  Dream, Morning, Writing

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• I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.

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  Bridges, Long, Want

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• Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

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  Sorry, Luxury, Being Sorry

  Stephen King, Peter Straub (2012). “The Talisman: A Novel”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

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  Book, House, Way

  Stephen King (1989). “The Stephen King companion”

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• I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.

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  Dream, Spiritual, Thinking

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• No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.

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  Artist, Knives, Names

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

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  Teaching, School, Brain

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• This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

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  Imagination, Needs, Fiction

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.405, Simon and Schuster

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• Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.

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  Running, Kryptonite, House

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• I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead), but there was a view among the student writers I knew at that time that good writing came spontaneously, in an uprush of feeling that had to be caught at once; when you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

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  Home, Writing, Views

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

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  Baseball, Television, Red

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