Quotes by Stephen King

Stephen King
American author of horror and supernatural fiction
Alive from: 1947-
Category: Writers (Contemporary)
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Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Source: The Gunslinger (1982) 145 -
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Source: Faceboek (2013) -
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
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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.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Source: It (1986) voorblad -
If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.
Source: Salem's Lot (2008) 315 -
If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy - and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Source: Different Seasons (1982) -
Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
Source: Coffey on the Mile (2016) 81
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