Stephen King: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 8)

“Sometimes, Delores, you have to be a high riding bitch in order to survive, because being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to..”

“The darkness. Goddamn the darkness. It seemed to Garraty they had been buried alive in it. Immured in it. Dawn was a century away. Many of them would never see the dawn. Or the sun. They were buried six feet deep in the darkness. All they needed was the monotonous chanting of the priest, his voice muffled but not entirely obscured by the new-packed darkness, above which the mourners stood. The mourners were not even aware that they were here, they were alive, they were screaming and scratching and clawing at the coffin-lid darkness, the air was flaking and rusting away, the air was turning into poison gas, hope fading until hope itself was darkness, and above all of it the nodding chapel-bell voice of the priest and the impatient, shuffling feet of mourners anxious to be off into the warm May sunshine. Then, overmastering that, the sighing, shuffling chorus of the bugs and the beetles, squirming their way through the earth, come for the feast…I could go crazy, Garraty thought. I could go right the fuck off my rocker.”

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”

“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.”

“If I know anything, I know scary. And giving this president and this out-of-control Congress two more years to screw up our future is downright terrifying. Thankfully, this national nightmare is one we can end.”

“I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson.”

“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.”

“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”

“Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.”

“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.”

“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”

“We all float down here!”

“It is the tale, not he who tells it.”

“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”