Stephen King Quotes

• A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is…like a life without pictures.

  Stephen King

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  Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

  Stephen King

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• The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size.

  Stephen King

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• This inhuman place makes human monsters.

  Stephen King

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• Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

  Stephen King

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  Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.

  Stephen King

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• We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

  Stephen King

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• What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common….

  Stephen King

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• Every man or woman who loves him, they hate him too, because he’s a hard God, a jealous God.

  Stephen King

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  Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

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• Never the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

  Stephen King

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• To write is human, to edit is divine.

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• There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But… this is what God wants of you.

  Stephen King

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• You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

  Stephen King

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• Good books are for consideration after, too.

  Stephen King

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• Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

  Stephen King

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• A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

  Stephen King

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• You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.

  Stephen King

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• The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

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  Books are a uniquely portable magic.

  Stephen King

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Stephen King (132)

Birth:	21st September, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Producer, Screenwriter, Television Producer, Writer

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