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Ideas Quotes by Stephen King

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Stephen King questions adult authority, imagining a world without grown‑ups. He warns that rationalism can become a death‑trip if it stops us from feeling. He also urges writers to keep working even when imagination feels exhausted, and he defends genre fiction as real literature.

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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.

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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel…

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It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

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The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

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The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

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Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

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An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

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By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

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Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the…

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If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around…

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So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the…

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I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore…

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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…

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The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come…

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As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light…

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I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone…

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I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't.…

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My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's…

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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…

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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…

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Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing,…

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I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't…

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I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped…

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... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran…

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The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about…

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I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get…

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When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

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I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think…

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I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can…

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There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from…

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I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best.He was my model as…

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A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one…

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Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd…

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Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been.…

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Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too…

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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…

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A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic…

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It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the…

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There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck…

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A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often…

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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…

“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…

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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”