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title: "41 Firsts Quotes By Stephen King"
description: "41 Firsts quotes by Stephen King. Plus more from Stephen King and more Firsts sayings from other authors."
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> [Only God gets things right the first time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/only-god-gets-things-right-the-first-time/)

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> [First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/first-comes-smiles-then-lies-last-is-gunfire-roland-deschain-of-gilead/)

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> [Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/some-part-of-me-knew-from-the-first-that-what-i-wanted-was-not/)

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> [I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-ll-see-you-he-grinned-not-if-i-see-you-first/)

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> [ The situation comes first...the characters...come next...\[then\] begin to narrate. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-situation-comes-first-the-characters-come-next-then-begin-to/)

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> [Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/formula-second-draft-first-draft-minus-10/)

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> [Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/your-first-impulse-is-to-share-good-news-your-second-is-to-club/)

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> [The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-first-draft-of-a-book-even-a-long-one-should-take-no-more-than/)

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> [The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-first-movie-i-ever-saw-was-a-horror-movie-it-was-bambi-when-that/)

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> [I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-m-not-the-first-person-to-have-said-this-no-writer-ever-feels-that/)

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> [On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/on-the-subject-of-love-at-first-sight-i-m-with-the-beatles-i-believe/)

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> [Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/poe-was-the-first-writer-to-write-about-main-characters-who-were-bad/)

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> [What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/what-i-tell-kids-is-don-t-get-mad-about-censorship-get-even-run-don-t/)

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> [The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-beauty-of-religious-mania-is-that-it-has-the-power-to-explain-2/)

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> [...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/for-the-first-time-in-my-life-writing-was-hard-the-problem-was-the/)

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> [The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-first-real-terror-struck-him-then-and-there-was-nothing/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/it-s-a-mystery-that-s-the-first-thing-that-interests-me-about-the/)

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> [What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/what-i-d-show-you-is-much-more-bizarre-than-anything-we-have-looked/)

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> [A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/a-book-is-like-a-pump-it-gives-nothing-unless-first-you-give-to-it/)

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> [Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/maybe-that-s-why-god-made-us-kids-first-and-built-us-close-to-the/)

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> [The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-first-movie-i-can-remember-seeing-was-the-creature-from-the-black/)

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> [The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-first-thing-was-to-get-down-to-addie-richardson-s-henhouse-and/)

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> [And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/and-if-there-are-no-cars-or-planes-and-if-no-one-s-uncle-john-is-out/)

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> [There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/there-is-a-story-in-the-book-night-shift-called-the-mangler-about-a/)

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> [There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/there-are-all-sorts-of-theories-and-ideas-about-what-constitutes-a/)

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> [He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/he-needs-to-be-corrected-if-you-don-t-mind-me-saying-so-he-needs-a/)

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> [Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/some-birds-are-not-meant-to-be-caged-that-s-all-their-feathers-are-2/)

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> [Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/elvis-presley-s-talent-brightened-millions-of-lives-he-widened-the/)

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> [I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-want-to-engage-the-reader-i-m-an-emotional-writer-in-the-sense-that/)

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> [People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/people-think-first-love-is-sweet-and-never-sweeter-than-when-that/)

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> [She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/she-didn-t-see-him-at-first-she-was-watching-the-dancers-her-color/)

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> [As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/as-infants-our-first-victory-comes-in-grasping-some-bit-of-the-world/)

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> [Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/come-to-a-book-as-you-would-come-to-an-unexplored-land-come-without-a/)

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> [...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/book-buyers-aren-t-attracted-by-and-large-by-the-literary-merits-of-a/)

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> [And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/and-that-almost-killed-you-it-wasn-t-deep-but-it-got-infected/)

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> [I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-believe-the-first-draft-of-a-book-even-a-long-one-should-take-no/)

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> [Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/jake-went-in-aware-that-he-had-for-the-first-time-in-three-weeks/)

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> [“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/a-marriage-was-like-a-house-under-constant-construction-each-year/)

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> [The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-beauty-of-religious-mania-is-that-it-has-the-power-to-explain/)

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> [When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/when-we-blew-the-first-atomic-bomb-at-white-sands-near-the-end-of-the/)

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## Other authors on Firsts

## More by Stephen King

> [Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/shall-there-be-truth-between-us-as-two-men-not-as-friends-but-as/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-worst-advice-don-t-listen-to-the-critics-i-think-that-you-really/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/october-3-2017-the-clown-hagarty-said-looked-like-a-cross-between/)

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> [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/eddie-saw-great-things-and-near-misses-albert-einstein-as-a-child-not/)

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> [It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/it-hurt-of-course-but-more-often-than-not-the-best-things-do-i-ve/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-idea-that-creative-endeavor-and-mind-altering-substances-are/)

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> [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-sun-had-burned-through-and-the-day-had-gone-from-dull-to-dazzling/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/god-you-had-enough-time-to-have-been-through-it-three-times-you-ve/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/flakes-of-snow-swirled-and-danced-across-the-porch-the-overlook-faced/)

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> [“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/in-that-instant-it-all-seemed-to-come-clear-to-him-it-came-in-a/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/who-gets-to-be-best-liked-in-any-community-who-is-the-most-trusted/)

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> [“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/lo-ves-tonto-volvi-a-rega-arse-t-lo-inventaste-todo-gato-asustado-no/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/death-but-not-for-you-that-was-what-walter-clever-as-satan-even-at/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-ghost-story-movie-that-scared-me-the-most-was-the-changeling-with/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/climb-aboard-jonesy-i-m-going-to-send-you-up-where-the-air-is-rare/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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