Stephen King: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 11)

“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.”

“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”

“Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?”

“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

“the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”

“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”

“All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one…”

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

“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.”

“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”

“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.”

“I am your number one fan.”

“The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.”

“and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended”

“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”

“Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.”

“I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”

“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”