A.E. Jackson > A.E.'s Quotes

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

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

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

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

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Tears are words that need to be written.”
― Paulo Coelho

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
― Richard Bach

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― Stephen King