Stephen King Quotes

• It is the tale, not he who tells it.

  Stephen King

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• Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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• Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

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• The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.

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• Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

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• The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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• Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Different, Books

• You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

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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.

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  Tags in Writing, Hope, Reading

• Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

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  Tags in Mind

• Well, I’m like a drug addict, I’m always saying I’m going to stop, and then I don’t, what I’ve said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.

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  Tags in Saying, Addict

• We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

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  Tags in Manufacturing, Culture

• We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

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  Tags in Talent, Smart

• We’re news junkies in my house.

  Stephen King

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  Tags in News

• This is not a bad life.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Bad

• That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

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  Tags in Signals, Write

• Let’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

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  Tags in Kid, Feels

• I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

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  Topics in God

• I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

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  Topics in Mother

• I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

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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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