Stephen King Quotes

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Stephen King

Profession : Author

Birth : September 21, 1947

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

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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.

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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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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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I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

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When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

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This is not a bad life.

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I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

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I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

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It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

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Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

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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.

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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.

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I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

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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.

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