Stephen King Quotes

Stephen King
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Born: Sep 21, 1947
God Good Life People Think You
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. Stephen King
Win Sometimes Live Too Monsters Ghosts Inside Real Us Relatable Sad Relatable
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. Stephen King
Work Hard Work Salt Table Individual Cheaper Talent Talented Lot Than Successful Separates Hard
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. Stephen King
Horrors Make Make Up Real Up Us Help Cope
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. Stephen King
You Words Feelings Important Important Things Living Say Diminish Out Brought Seem More Head Most Because Timeless Than Get The Most Important Size Ashamed Your Shrink Hardest Things
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. Stephen King
Heart Strange People Think Correct Must Small Glass Boy Very Person Jar Desk
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' Stephen King
Life God Family Me You Job Farm Down Ruined Destroyed About Something Voice Thundering Answered His Off Yelled Up Just Heavens Just Something Ground Why
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Stephen King
Truth Lie Speak Enemies Duty Web Only Caught Friends Endlessly Lovers
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. Stephen King
Good You Book Own Lesson Every Books Bad Good Ones More Pick Up Than Quite Often Teach Lessons
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. Stephen King
Life Eye Of The Beholder Beauty Interpretation Our Eye Out Pretty Scars Bear Ugliness Lot Up Get Beholder Children Literal Whether Us Much Grow Grow Up
You have to stay faithful to what you're working on. Stephen King
You Faithful Stay Working
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet. Stephen King
You Made Only Never Feet Still Were Mattered Where Place Stand Your
The devil's voice is sweet to hear. Stephen King
Devil Sweet Voice Hear
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. Stephen King
Home Cried Back Hospital Had Knew Got Been Titanic Watched Damaged
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. Stephen King
Funny You Guess See Be Prepared Some Main Road Houses Off Turn Turn-Off Prepared
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Stephen King
Education War Care Responsibility National Young Assume Sick Responsibilities Charitable Failing Repair Repayment Debts America Staggering Infrastructure Poor
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. Stephen King
You Others Way Must Above Write Writer Read Around Lot Want Shortcut Aware Things Two
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King
Hope You Writing Else Has-Been Someone Until Force Been Done Cannot Sweep Your Away
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. Stephen King
Life Time Good Day People Writing School Thought My Life Good Time Saved Enough Distrust Loner Never Along Get Anybody Inarticulate Sanity Who Socially
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. Stephen King
Life Love Me People Made My Life Half Year Other Books Spent Exactly See Idea Like Know Also Because Occurred Go Been Lot Going Movie Movies Working Novel Interpreted
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. Stephen King
Heart People Tell Small Write Stuff Like Know Boy Want Them Jar Gross Keep Why Desk
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. Stephen King
Politics Culture World Economics Part Trying Interested Really Manufacturing Serious Switched Play
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. Stephen King
Culture People Smart Smoking Gun Healthy YouTube Think Ought Proliferation Some About Smart People Like Smoking Gun Celebrity Celebrity Culture Discussion Whether Really Whole Serious Things
I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. Stephen King
Love Crime Mysteries Ghosts
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. Stephen King
People Saw City City People Seeing Echoes Having Results Tendency New Particularly York New York New York City New Yorkers After Happened Breathed Apocalypse Who Keep
This is not a bad life. Stephen King
Life Bad
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. Stephen King
You Change Think More Writer Talent Least Left Handed Left-Handed Than Any Whether Choose Elements Right Basic Basic Elements

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