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ALAN SCHLOSSER Stephen King is a powerful guy, will powerful vocabulary.
DEYTH BANGER I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.
JULIE ORRINGER I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two ...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the...
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Stephen King interviews and speeches are incrediable very powerful.
DEYTH BANGER Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the futur...
ANNE RICE Each character created by Stephen King is a proffesor... a guy full of knowledge.
DEYTH BANGER Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.
HAROLD BLOOM House Arrest.
DAMON DASH I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commissi...
HU JIA Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
DANA STABENOW Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's jo...
BARRY EISLER God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
STEPHEN KING So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside l...
STEPHEN KING I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
STEPHEN KING The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
STEPHEN KING How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between.
STEPHEN KING Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET EASTON ELLIS You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.
CARRIE P. MEEK In simple terms, this is the story of a decent and honorable young man embarked on a spiritual quest...
FRANK LINDH Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.
-Stephen King, I...
STEPHEN KING If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER Pet Sematary 1 is one crazy story and film.
DEYTH BANGER The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms...
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ The seeker might aim to hide too, make sure the person you are waiting for is trustworthy, if not th...
JASMINE KIYANI Stephen is playing better lead guitar and he's singing better, and I think this is the best we've so...
GRAHAM NASH The whole system and pattern of play under Sven is flawed. We seem to have lost the plot,
DAVE WHELAN plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOE POYER I was rightfully placed under arrest,
CHARLES LYONS The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the...
VICTOR LAVALLE Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.
VANNA BONTA Stephen King couldn't come up with a monster worse than this guy,
STEVE RELFORD Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic th...
WILLIAM H. MACY Truth is the best defense.
WARD CHURCHILL Love is naked and unashamed and infinitely
assessable to the world He gave Himself up for.
CATHERINE TOON Stop! You're under arrest for being too sexy. Your sentence is an eternity inside my heart.
ANONYMOUS The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, li...
ROB REINER And that almost killed you?"
"It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad ...
STEPHEN KING They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too.
STEPHEN KING I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
CLIVE CUSSLER I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
TRACY CHAPMAN When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
LESLIE FIEDLER I think the truth is black-and-white.
NANCY GRACE Rock is not dead, but it is The Walking Dead, with a few groups still trying to survive in a zombie ...
MICHAEL P. NAUGHTON A customer is never wrong . . .
LEON VAN DE PAS Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You feature...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surpr...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is-full of surpris...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER I wish you well - if you will die. May you rest in peace.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You can see that Alex is a very shifty runner. And Herb is just a load out there.
DON PATTERSON Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says th...
MICHAEL KORYTA Be a good listener in the special way a story requires: note the manner of presentation; the develop...
ROBERT COLES In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story....
PAT CONROY When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has ...
ALLAN ADLER Every citizen is king under a citizen king. [Fr., Tout citoyen est roi sous un roi citoyen.]
CHARLES SIMON FAVART What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
GARY CHERONE I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pie...
SPIKE LEE Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then ne...
SARAH WATERS When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-f...
WILLIAM SHATNER Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
STEPHEN KING Character is plot, plot is character.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Typically, the house-arrest devices work perfectly for the nonviolent offenders.
JANET HORTON Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There'...
RICHARD LINKLATER I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in...
HOPE JAHREN Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
BRENT M. JONES The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
ROBERT CAPA If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter a...
KEVIN BLEYER Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
THOMAS FULLER Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved
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ERIC HOFFER I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly lit...
DEREK LANDY A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King h...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON You Can't Kill Stephen King, the great film of all time what more awesome than that??
You can't...
DEYTH BANGER Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am the best of the worst and worst of the best.
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MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.
GEORGE A. ROMERO FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
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STEPHEN KING Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...
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STEPHEN KING The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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STEPHEN KING [Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
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STEPHEN KING Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
STEPHEN KING you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
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STEPHEN KING Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
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STEPHEN KING The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
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STEPHEN KING I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
STEPHEN KING Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
STEPHEN KING Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.
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STEPHEN KING No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can ch...
STEPHEN KING His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible f...
STEPHEN KING Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well ...
STEPHEN KING Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
STEPHEN KING There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
STEPHEN KING I am your number one fan.
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STEPHEN KING People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
STEPHEN KING Do you drink?"
"Of course,I just said I was a writer.
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STEPHEN KING Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is...
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STEPHEN KING The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
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STEPHEN KING Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to tea...
STEPHEN KING Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
STEPHEN KING This is not a bad life.
STEPHEN KING stop now before i kill you
a word to the wise from your friend
PENNYWISE
STEPHEN KING Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.
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STEPHEN KING the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.
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STEPHEN KING never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.
STEPHEN KING A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
STEPHEN KING We all float down here!
STEPHEN KING Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you...
STEPHEN KING The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. H...
STEPHEN KING Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
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STEPHEN KING Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.
STEPHEN KING God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
STEPHEN KING We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
STEPHEN KING Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
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STEPHEN KING I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I ai...
STEPHEN KING There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.
STEPHEN KING Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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STEPHEN KING Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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STEPHEN KING You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.
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STEPHEN KING I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, tha...
STEPHEN KING There’s always someone who knows something.
STEPHEN KING What if I fall?', Tim cried.

Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.
STEPHEN KING A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're childre...
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STEPHEN KING I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
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STEPHEN KING They say bachelors have all the fun. Not so. You just get old and full of sand, nasty.
STEPHEN KING The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches some...
STEPHEN KING oh shit it's shit
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STEPHEN KING At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes o...
STEPHEN KING But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' Ho...
STEPHEN KING Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.
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STEPHEN KING Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
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STEPHEN KING We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
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STEPHEN KING Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers...
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STEPHEN KING Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect
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STEPHEN KING You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream...
STEPHEN KING There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to li...
STEPHEN KING It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
STEPHEN KING You must not come lightly to the blank page.
STEPHEN KING You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the...
STEPHEN KING If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
STEPHEN KING Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule...
STEPHEN KING You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it...
STEPHEN KING A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.
STEPHEN KING Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from th...
STEPHEN KING Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming e...
STEPHEN KING I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.
STEPHEN KING No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as ...
STEPHEN KING The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
STEPHEN KING Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
STEPHEN KING God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
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STEPHEN KING Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
STEPHEN KING Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.
STEPHEN KING Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, s...
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STEPHEN KING Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
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STEPHEN KING When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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STEPHEN KING Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffle...
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STEPHEN KING I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost alw...
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STEPHEN KING I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that s...
STEPHEN KING There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c...
STEPHEN KING Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, ...
STEPHEN KING Love leaves scars.
STEPHEN KING When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the tim...
STEPHEN KING The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KING Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
STEPHEN KING He killed them with their love
STEPHEN KING Home is where they want you to stay longer.
STEPHEN KING For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thin...
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STEPHEN KING She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
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STEPHEN KING Get busy living or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING Good books are for consideration after, too.
STEPHEN KING And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
STEPHEN KING Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
STEPHEN KING I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let h...
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