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Stephen King Quotes

What would happen is that every idiot in this town who owns a gun, which is basically every idiot in this town, would grab his gun, jump into his car, or somebody else's car, and lay rubber for I-95. Inside of ten minutes the city is gridlocked, and what happens next makes IwoJima look like a maypole dance. This whole town turns into the end of a Stephen King novel.
- Dave Barry

I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.
- Harold Bloom

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,
I need protection from the things in my head..
- Jimmy Buffett

It's not the books by Stephen King that I read,
I need protection from the things in my head..
- Jimmy Buffett

What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Everything in the Universe denies 'nothing'. To suggest an ending is the one absurdity -The Man in Black from Stephen King's The Gunslinger
- Stephen King

remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.
- Stephen King

When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought "If THAT guy ever came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood."
- Stephen King

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, Write.
- Stephen King

Stay hungry. It worked for Michelangelo, it worked for Picasso, and it works for a hundred thousand artists who do it not for love (although that might play a part) but in order to put food on the table. If you want to translate the world, you need to use your appetites. Does this surprise you? It shouldn't. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art. -- Stephen King: Duma Key
- Stephen King

When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
- Leslie Fiedler

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
- Mary Garden

The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.
- Ben E King

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
- Dean Koontz

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
- William H Macy

They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.
- Michael Mckean

Mouse sandwiches and open graves?" Meredith arched an elegant eyebrow. "I think you're getting Stephen King mixed up with Lewis Carroll.
- L J Smith

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He's fantastic.
- Timothy Olyphant

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.
- Amy Poehler

I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.
- Anne Rice

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
- Anne Rice

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
- Anne Rice

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.
- Fred Saberhagen

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
- Mickey Spillane

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