It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters. Stephen King More Quotes by Stephen King More Quotes From Stephen King If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea. Stephen King wall kings writing The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen Stephen King oil giving lying Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. Stephen King imagination kings writing And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react. Stephen King space skins comfort Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape. Stephen King reading opportunity book We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith. Stephen King knowing-nothing faith fall We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well. Stephen King our-lives wells knows Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. Stephen King teeth bites poet Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home. Stephen King falling-in-love fear home We lie best when we lie to ourselves. Stephen King being-lied liars lying You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. Stephen King said-life lying way Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. Stephen King growing-up heart thinking Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love. Stephen King coffee girl sorry It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating. Stephen King boring beautiful sometimes No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart. Stephen King bad-friend fake-people heart I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons. Stephen King starting-up guy advice The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. Stephen King kings secret house Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all. Stephen King no-love ruins my-friends That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better. Stephen King love-life pain love-you There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal. Stephen King suicide depression believe
