Stephen King Quotes

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Stephen King

Profession : Author

Birth : September 21, 1947

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.'

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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

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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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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

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You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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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.

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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

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

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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.

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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.

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Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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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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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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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.

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You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

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

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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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