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141 " If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. "
― Stephen King
142 " It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged. "
― Stephen King , On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
143 " But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart? "
― Stephen King , Everything's Eventual
144 " I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. "
145 " Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts. "
― Stephen King , Just After Sunset
146 " It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep. "
147 " I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world. "
― Stephen King , Joyland
148 " Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God. "
― Stephen King , The Stand
149 " Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented. "
― Stephen King , Desperation
150 " The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go "
― Stephen King , The Gunslinger
151 " Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. "
152 " She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship. "
153 " Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? "
154 " He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake. "
155 " About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are. "
― Stephen King , The Green Mile
156 " I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on. "
157 " Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard "
158 " There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went. "
― Stephen King , Doctor Sleep
159 " It's a hard life if you don't weaken. "
160 " When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost. "