Stephen King - From the Activity category: - The Shawshank Redemption...

Get busy living or get busy dying. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Anxiety category: - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000...

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names... Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Beginning category: When I start a story, I don't know where it's going. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Belief category: All you need to do is hold on tight... and believe. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Books category: Books are a uniquely portable magic. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Desire category: The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Drunkenness category: I work until beer o'clock. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Eccentricity category: I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Editing category: I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Ego category: I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Fear category: We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Friendship category: No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Goodness category: It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Hope category: Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Humour category: You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Ideas category: Good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing right at you out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Immortality category: Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Importance category: The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings... (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Indolence category: I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Innocence category: The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Journey category: I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Life category: You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Love category: So will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Money category: If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Production category: It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Questions category: People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Religion category: The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Routine category: The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Strength category: The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Suffering category: God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Talent category: Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless. When you find something at which you are talented, you do it – whatever it is – until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Thinking category: I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Time category: Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Truth category: Fiction is the truth inside the lie. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Words category: Words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Work category: Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Writing category: Constant reading will pull you into a place – a mind-set, if you like the phrase – where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness. (Stephen King) Stephen King - From the Writing category: When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'One word at a time.' (Stephen King)