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  • #1
    C.S. Lewis
    “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

  • #2
    Stephen  King
    “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

  • #3
    Stephen  King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    Stephen King

  • #4
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #5
    Stephen  King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #6
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

  • #8
    Stephen  King
    “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
    Stephen King

  • #9
    Stephen  King
    “If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
    Stephen King

  • #10
    Stephen  King
    “I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
    I aim with my eye.

    I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
    I shoot with my mind.

    I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
    I kill with my heart.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
    Stephen King, Night Shift

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #13
    Stephen  King
    “In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #14
    Stephen  King
    “Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?”
    Stephen King
    tags: love

  • #15
    Stephen  King
    “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
    Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

  • #16
    Stephen  King
    “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #17
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #18
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #19
    Stephen  King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #20
    Stephen  King
    “When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
    Stephen King, Storm of the Century

  • #21
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #22
    Stephen  King
    “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
    Stephen King

  • #23
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    Stephen King

  • #25
    Stephen  King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    Stephen King

  • #26
    Stephen  King
    “Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
    Stephen King

  • #27
    Stephen  King
    “That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
    Stephen King, The Stand

  • #28
    Stephen  King
    “Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
    Stephen King, Bag of Bones

  • #29
    Stephen  King
    “There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
    Stephen King

  • #30
    Stephen  King
    “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
    Stephen King



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