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Stephen King

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Stephen shoots just enough coverage.
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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
TRACY CHAPMAN
Not here. Stephen is the starter and I take what they give me.
DESHAUN FOSTER
I heard that Stephen King doesn't sleep well,... so I gues that he doesn't sleep well from his imagi...
DEYTH BANGER
If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.
MICHAEL SHANNON
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally ac...
ROBERT COLLIER
I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside l...
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I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
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The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
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Stephen King is a powerful guy, will powerful vocabulary.
DEYTH BANGER
They want out (of jail) so bad that they give me all good information.
JACK SANDERS
Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS
Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET EASTON ELLIS
I can only see my side with as much information as others give me.
CODY WILLIAM MUELLER
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's jo...
BARRY EISLER
Pet Sematary 1 is one crazy story and film.
DEYTH BANGER
I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In th...
ANNE RICE
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
(BEWARE)
Stephen King interviews and speeches are incrediable very powerful.
DEYTH BANGER
I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
YANCY BUTLER
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.
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Stephen King couldn't come up with a monster worse than this guy,
STEVE RELFORD
You don't fear me," he said now.
She wasn't stupid enough to lie. "I'm petrified. But I figure ...
NALINI SINGH
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world.
UNKNOWN
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
ARCHIMEDES
You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can ju...
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And that almost killed you?"
"It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad ...
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They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too.
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When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
LESLIE FIEDLER
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
MICKEY SPILLANE
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic th...
WILLIAM H. MACY
Each character created by Stephen King is a proffesor... a guy full of knowledge.
DEYTH BANGER
Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.
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Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enoug...
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I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in ...
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My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the...
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They can assume anything they want. I'm not. I just told my wife yesterday that I need to have a goo...
GREG MADDUX
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the futur...
ANNE RICE
People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS...
I think just having more mat time has helped me. You're always in a match so you just can never give...
BRENNAN WHITMAN
If I can just help one child get through, that would be enough for me.
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The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the...
VICTOR LAVALLE
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
DANA STABENOW
I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR
And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours ...
EMILY DICKINSON
Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.
MEGYN KELLY
I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.
BRITTANY MURPHY
If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for St...
GARTH STEIN
Even if you lie to me...that's okay.
I'll be satisfied with as much of yourself as you can giv...
YUN KOUGA
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER THERESA
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER TERESA
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER TERESA
A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows
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When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all into the wastebasket and goes to Flori...
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Want a balloon?
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The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
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All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to ...
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You’re on, Ted,” I told him. “Your big chance, boy. Don’t blow it. Folks, this kid is going ...
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more informatio...
LEV GROSSMAN
15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.
CHARLES ATLAS
I am not sure I trust you."
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my w...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER
But just like I've always said when people complain about tee times, 'I just want a tee time...
DAVID DUVAL
I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But...
LISA GARDNER
Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look f...
LOIS HOROWITZ
How I get inspired?? (Good question!)
I just read stuff which make me to get inspired, like hor...
DEYTH BANGER
Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.
-Stephen King, I...
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I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being whe...
JAMES DASHNER
Don't Lie alone, join group of liars so that your Lie can be successful.
FRANCIS MATHEW
The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never kno...
NATALIE MARTINEZ
You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplac...
DEYTH BANGER
You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.
BILL GOLDBERG
I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup ...
ELSA PERETTI
When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT
There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that m...
EDWARD DE BONO
If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.
MATT CARTWRIGHT
My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want...
KEITH SWEAT
Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.
DAVID MCCALLUM
Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says th...
MICHAEL KORYTA
I put it behind me, the incident. All I'll say about it is that afterwards, family, friends, the cit...
BRAD BUTLER
In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I...
RYAN KWANTEN
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give m...
SHAKIRA
Stephen is a big, big player, so he makes me work really hard. Every time he blocks my shot, then I ...
AHMET GUEYE
I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER TERESA
When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has ...
ALLAN ADLER
I can't take classified information that I get as a senator and give it to someone with no conse...
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The king must die so that the country can live.
MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE
You Can't Kill Stephen King, the great film of all time what more awesome than that??
You can't...
DEYTH BANGER
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defense...
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Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
STEPHEN KING
It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en...
STEPHEN KING
When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
STEPHEN KING
Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, ...
STEPHEN KING
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffle...
STEPHEN KING
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic...
STEPHEN KING
I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost alw...
STEPHEN KING
Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expressio...
STEPHEN KING
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that s...
STEPHEN KING
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c...
STEPHEN KING
Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, ...
STEPHEN KING
Love leaves scars.
STEPHEN KING
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the tim...
STEPHEN KING
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KING
Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
STEPHEN KING
He killed them with their love
STEPHEN KING
Home is where they want you to stay longer.
STEPHEN KING
For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thin...
STEPHEN KING
He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Uta...
STEPHEN KING
She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
STEPHEN KING
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invaria...
STEPHEN KING
Get busy living or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING
Good books are for consideration after, too.
STEPHEN KING
And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
STEPHEN KING
Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
STEPHEN KING
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let h...
STEPHEN KING