Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I was counting my toes" Stebbins said companionably. "They are fabulously good company because they always add up the same way".” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“George Carlin once observed, in some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He feels a kind of holy exaltation as he goes about the business of writing this story; he even feels that he… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“... what I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What people didn’t understand about pool maintenance was that it was not a business for softies. You had to be driven. If… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The resulting scrambling to get the next big shiver and shake novel produced some really terrible books. As a further result, the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Two pages of the passive voice—just about any business document ever written, in other words, not to mention reams of bad fiction—make… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was a cliché, but for all-weather company, you couldn’t do better than a dog. Couldn’t do better than a dog, period.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One can often trace the sources of a brand personality-here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A little of everything, that’s what a successful business is all about, Brian. Diversity, pleasure, amazement, fulfillment . . . what a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together-a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“and if it played its cards right they could end up flitting through the Overlook’s halls like insubstantial shades in a Shirley… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share
“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.… — Stephen King Copy Share
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share
“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.… — Stephen King Copy Share
“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened… — Stephen King Copy Share
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share
Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and… — Stephen King Copy Share
“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to… — Stephen King Copy Share
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.” — Stephen King Copy Share
