Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
STEPHEN KINGDiscipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.
More Stephen King Quotes
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You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
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If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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True sorrow is as rare as true love.
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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FEAR stands for face everything and recover.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.
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The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
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The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
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Some things were better lost than found.
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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
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There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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The only religions I don’t like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
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Love isn’t soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
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