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Thing Quotes by Stephen King
- 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…
- Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even…
- And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the…
- He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times…
- 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.…
- Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an…
- Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters…
- I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer.…
- Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't…
- It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also…
- 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…
- When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the…
- 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…
- 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…
- I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe,…
- Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes…
- A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
- The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep…
- love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity…
- Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt…
- Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and…
- At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to…
- 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…
- Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
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- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong