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Death is when the monsters get you.
STEPHEN KING, Salem's Lot
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills.
STEPHEN KING, interview, Sept. 14, 2000
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING, The Last Gunslinger
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
STEPHEN KING, Hearts in Atlantis
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
STEPHEN KING, Danse Macabre
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
STEPHEN KING, Wolves of the Calla
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
STEPHEN KING, Needful Things
Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.
STEPHEN KING, Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 17, 2007
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
STEPHEN KING, Danse Macabre
In this day and age when everybody thinks psychology is God's gift to the poor old anally fixated human race and even the president of the United States pops a trank before dinner, it's really a good way to get rid of those Old Testament guilts that keep creeping up our throats like the aftertaste of a bad meal we overate. If you say your father hated you as a kid, you can go out and flash the neighborhood, commit rape, or burn down the Kinights of Pythias bingo parlor and still cop a plea... But it also means that no one will believe you if it's true.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.
STEPHEN KING, Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 17, 2007
Time is a face on the water.
STEPHEN KING, Wolves of the Calla
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutterball when you're bowling with the girls in the leage. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.
STEPHEN KING, interview, Sept. 14, 2000
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
STEPHEN KING, Wolves of the Calla
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