Stephen King: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 5)

“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

“Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.”

“Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”

“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”

“Do you drink?"
"Of course, I just said I was a writer.”

“Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.”

“the only mortal sin is giving up.”

“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.”

“If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.”

“I write to find out what I think.”

“A coward judges all he sees by what he is.”

“Sometimes dead is better”

“A person can't change all at once.”

“I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.”

“Do it for joy and you can do it forever”

“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”

“… stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”

“Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.”