Stephen King Quotes
16 quotes from Stephen King — Author of 65+ novels, many of which became iconic films (The Shining, IT, The Shawshank Redemption)..
“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
“Life sucks, then you die.”
“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.”
“Do it for joy and you can do it forever.”
“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
“The brain is a muscle that can move the world.”
“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don't have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”
“When I have a good idea, I just know. It's like if you have a bunch of cut-glass goblets set up and you're hitting them with a spoon. Clunk, clunk, clunk. And then one goes ding.”
“People often forget the breadth of Stephen's work and therefore the resulting breadth of adaptations. We think of Stephen often as a horror author, but that is still sort of the ghetto-ization of the genre, and the relegation of a pretty terrific literary artist.”
“We come in naked and broke. We may be dressed when we go out, but we're just as broke. All that lasts is what you pass on.”
“You can't think of writing as an adult pursuit or anything that's important. That's a good way to turn into a gasbag and start to think that you're really fucking important. You're not. You just do your work.”
“I think of muses as these guys, these blue-collar guys who live in the basement, and they sit around drinking beer and telling dirty jokes. And every now and then you go down and say, do you have any ideas for me? And the guy looks at you and says, yeah I got an idea and here it is. Now go get to work and don't bother me anymore. I got to polish my bowling trophies.”
“What is writing? Telepathy, of course.”
“I don't need marks on my body. You guys are engraved on my heart.”
