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Say Quotes by Stephen King
- You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the…
- But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here.…
- Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
- Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories…
- The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
- Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
- 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 sky and you're…
- Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a…
- The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about…
- The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness,…
- I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it…
- The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words…
- You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you…
- How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of…
- I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it…
- You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify
- Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see…
- Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the…
- If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is…
- How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much…
- How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his…
- The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high...…
- I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the…
- The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?" Yes." My Imagination." I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small…
- You say true, I say thankya.
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- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being… — Neil Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash