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Stephen King
Author
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
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King
You
Laughter
Long
Down
Favorite
Stays
Deny
Wants
Your
Chair
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
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen King
God
You
Sometimes
Live
Cruel
He
Makes
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
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Stephen King
Best
Great
Writing
Money
Too Much
Own
Creation
Think
Too
Else
Stuff
Great Stuff
Like
Beyond
Currency
Anything
Anything Else
Happens
Process
Much
Act
Whole
Thing
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
Stephen King
You
World
Closed
Own
Imagination
Back
Bit
More
Write
Supposed
Forced
Get
Refuge
Where
Wherever
Place
Little
Little Bit
Your
Away
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