I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. Stephen King More Quotes by Stephen King More Quotes From Stephen King And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible. Stephen King sadnessoppositesbelieve we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. Stephen King ghost-storiesfactsneeds They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? Stephen King human-beingshumansanimal Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything. Stephen King starsmoonsky I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. Stephen King writingtryingcharacter The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives. Stephen King childhoodstoriesremember Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears. Stephen King machinesgearsbelieve I work until beer o'clock. Stephen King partydrinkingfunny I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses. Stephen King marijuanadopeweed But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you. Stephen King autumnsummerfall I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister. Stephen King recoverykissingdrinking A man who lies about beer makes enemies. Stephen King beerfunnylying When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done. Stephen King hurtwritingchildren Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police aren't going to come and take you away. Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language. "It is an old observation," he writes, "that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric." Yet he goes on to add this thought, which I urge you to consider: "Unless he is certain of doing well, [the writer] will probably do best to follow the rules." Stephen King policewritingadd The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising. Stephen King imaginationwritingmean Small towns harbor small imaginations. Stephen King small-towntownsimagination Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written. Stephen King worstwrittenjudging Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street. Stephen King syntaxwritingpeople A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought. Stephen King good-reputationreputation I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you. Stephen King nightmaregiving
