Friday 28 June 2013

STEPHEN KING's QUOTEs

“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.” 
― Stephen King

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

 Stephen King

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

― Stephen King

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” 

― Stephen King

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

― Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” 

― Stephen King

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

― Stephen King


“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.” 

― Stephen KingDifferent Seasons

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” 

― Stephen KingRita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

“There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.” 

― Stephen King

“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.” 

― Stephen King

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

― Stephen King

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

― Stephen King

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

― Stephen King

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” 

― Stephen King

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” 

― Stephen King

“The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows” 

― Stephen King

“Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.” 
― Stephen KingDifferent Seasons

“As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?” 

― Stephen King

“People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.” 

― Stephen KingBag of Bones/the Green Mile/the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“They were close to the end of the beginning . . .” 

― Stephen KingThe Gunslinger

“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.” 

― Stephen KingFull Dark, No Stars

“I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.” 

― Stephen KingBag of Bones

“But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. 

Wash the car, maybe.” 
― Stephen King

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