Cool & famous Quotes by : Stephen King

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

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• Relationships

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

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• Love

I have spent a good many years since

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• Writing

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

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• Writing

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

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• Life

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

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• Inspirational

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

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• Writing

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

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• Humor

love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl...

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• Love

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

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• Writing

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

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• Life

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

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• Life

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

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• Inspirational

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

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• Life

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

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• Writing

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

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• Writing

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

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• Hope

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

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• Love

To write is human, to edit is divine.

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• Inspirational

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

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• Love

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

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• Writing

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

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• Life

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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• Writing

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

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• Writing

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

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• Writing

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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• Inspirational

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

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• Humor

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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• Writing

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

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• Writing

If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

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• Writing