Stephen King Cool & famous Quotes by

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

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

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• Writing

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

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• Writing

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

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• Writing

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

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• Life

If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

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• Inspirational

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

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• Humor

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

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• Inspirational

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

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• Books

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

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• Writing

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

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• Writing

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

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• Writing

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

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• Writing

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

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• Books

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

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• Life

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

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• Truth

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

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• Writing

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

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• Books

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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• Writing

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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• Inspirational

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

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• Life

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

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• Books

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

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• Inspirational

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

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• Life Lessons

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

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• Inspirational

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

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• Writing

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

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• Writing

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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• Books