Stephen King Quotes

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• My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother…
• I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of…
• ... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.
• His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old…
• True love always happens in a flash.
• But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays…
• Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of…
• I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to…
• A man who lies about beer makes enemies.
• Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.
• Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
• No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and…
• I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when…
• 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 something…
• There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least…
• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
• Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter…
• When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt;…
• One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a…
• Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only…

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