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Trying Quotes by Stephen King
- 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…
- What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not…
- I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.
- But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the…
- 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.…
- I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I…
- We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a…
- We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.
- Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair…
- I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
- Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three…
- You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it…
- People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
- 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…
- What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.
- Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking…
- Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you…
- Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
- Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too…
- I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that…
- The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary…
- Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try…
- I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
- Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you…
- It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- 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
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — 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
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash