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Words Quotes by Stephen King
- So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base…
- Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.
- 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…
- At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things…
- The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
- The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words…
- Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
- There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't…
- I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a…
- And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.
- Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps…
- Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
- The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's…
- A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.…
- For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at…
- I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of…
- Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of…
- One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe…
- If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and…
- Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes…
- The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers…
- The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them words shrink things…
- The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminsh them.
- The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
More Words Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila