Stephen King

“Hear me, I beg. We say thankee.”

“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain”

“Say, darling, I'm giving you this wonderful present, it's a machine that eats at one end and shits out the other, it's going to run for fifteen years, give or take, merry fucking Christmas.”

“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

“that this is Russian-A flu, not the more dangerous Swine flu.”

“And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. I love the feeling of Peter's story, someone may say. It had something... a sense of I don't know... there's a loving kind of you know... I can't exactly describe it....It seems to occur to few of the attendees that if you have a feeling you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.”

“Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the soul what a good sun-block is to the skin during the heat of summer.”

“It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.”

“And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.”

“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”

“Sorry is the KoolAid of human emotions.”

“A veces ser una perra es el único escudo que tiene una mujer”

“¿Cuándo murió? ¿Ha ocurrido de veras? ¿Y cómo voy a poder soportarlo el resto de mi vida sin volverme loco?.”

“Por un instante, contemplando aquellos ojos enloquecidos, una especie de angustioso horror se apoderó de él y pensó: Hola, Frank. Eres tú, ¿verdad? ¿Hacía demasiado calor en el infierno?.”

“abysmally beshitted.”

“I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.”

“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?”

“It's a hard life if you don't weaken.”

“Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.”

“You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?”

“Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.”

“I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.”

“You may wonder about long-term solutions. I assure you, there are none. All wounds are mortal. Take what's given. You sometimes get a little slack in the rope but the rope always has an end. So what? Bless the slack and don't waste your breath cursing the drop. A grateful heart knows that in the end we all swing.”

“Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don’t. Hilly didn’t.”

“His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one.If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy ... but he strongly hints at it.”

“Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.”

“É preciso ter coragem. Não ter medo de desenhar as coisas secretas. [...] Porque se contares a ti a grande mentira da arte inferior, perdes definitivamente a possibilidade de aceder à verdade A verdade nem sempre é agradável. Às vezes a verdade é o Calmeirão.”

“Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable, by the nature of the search.”

“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."”

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”

“You have to live where you wake up, even if somebody else dreamed you there.”

“And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend”

“I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.”

“Weird love's better than no love at all.”

“The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”

“The next bus pole was halfway up the block. Three black women, two white women, and a Hispanic man were standing by the post, a racial mixture so balanced it looked like a casting call for Law and Order SVU.”

“Although neither the Freudians nor the Jungians come right out and say it, they strongly suggest that we may have a core, a single basic carrier wave, or-to use language with which Jordan is comfortable-a single line of written code which cannot be stripped.''The PD,' Jordan said. 'The prime directive'.'Yes,' the Head agreed. 'At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens at all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.”

“Se empieza así: poniendo el escritorio en una esquina y, a la hora de sentarse a escribir, recordando el motivo de que no esté en medio de la habitación. La vida no está al servicio del arte sino al revés.”

“Tony, Tony,come around, something's lost that can't be found.”

“Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.”

“surely they had passed the worst. All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes.”

“The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959-a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only twelve hundred and eighty-one people. But to me, it was the whole world.”

“Chris: I'm never gonna get out of this town am I, Gordie?Gordie: You can do anything you want, man.Chris: Yeah, sure. Give me some skin.Gordie: I'll see ya.Chris: Not if I see you first.”

“Gordie: Do you think I'm weird?Chris: Definitely.Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird”

“Chris: How do you know if a Frenchman has been in your backyard?Teddy: Hey, I'm French, okay?Chris: Your garbage cans are empty and your dog's pregnant.[Chris and Gordie laugh]Teddy: Didn't I just say I was French?”

“Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh!Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.”

“Gordie: Alright, alright, Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy?Vern: If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy-Pez. Cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it.Teddy: Goofy's a dog. He's definitely a dog.Gordie: I knew the $64,000 question was fixed. There's no way anybody could know that much about opera!Chris: He can't be a dog. He drives a car and wears a hat.Gordie: Wagon Train's a really cool show, but did you notice they never get anywhere? They just keep wagon training.Vern: Oh, God. That's weird. What the hell is Goofy?”

“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.”

“Scrivere è un'occupazione solitaria. Avere qualcuno che crede in te fa una grande differenza. Non c'è bisogno che si lancino in orazioni. Di solito credere è già sufficiente.”