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First Quotes by Stephen King
- Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot…
- The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your…
- The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.
- He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls,…
- Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my…
- And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away…
- 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 powerful and awesome…
- The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of…
- First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead
- Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book…
- Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them…
- As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the…
- Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
- The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering…
- A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work…
- She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her…
- What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first…
- And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous…
- True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale…
- I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for…
- The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to…
- On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.
- Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
- Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on…
- I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.
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- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong