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Seems Quotes by Stephen King

18 Seems quotes by Stephen King

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When reality blurs and the ordinary feels uncanny, King’s words cut through the fog. This set of 18 lines pulls you into the subtle tension between appearance and truth, a perfect companion for anyone who’s ever felt that something was more than it seemed.

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People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

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As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything.…

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Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least…

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The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're…

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I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

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The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not…

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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 them…

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Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's…

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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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Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to…

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Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to…

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I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found…

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At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten…

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I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would…

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These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and…

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If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the…

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Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more…

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For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It…

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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.”

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