If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it? Stephen King More Quotes by Stephen King More Quotes From Stephen King Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. Stephen King knivescuttingsuccess Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. Stephen King commandmentswriting He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts. Stephen King twisterfistsghost Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall. Stephen King evilwaitingfall You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. Stephen King smilehappinessfunny In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling. Stephen King boredomprioritiessight It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered. Stephen King cancermemorieswar You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King forcedonewriting Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Stephen King life-changingchangetime Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. Stephen King thesaurusthought-provokingwriting By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. Stephen King wallsupportwriting FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying Stephen King faces Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. Stephen King shininglighthurt I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. Stephen King magicmemoriesbelieve And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. Stephen King viewspeoplethinking Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged. Stephen King fantasy-and-realitysuitsreality If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. Stephen King wantwritingtwo Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed. Stephen King good-luckluckhair Art should be a place of hope. Stephen King shouldart Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it. Stephen King glassestoo-muchreading
