Quotes

“I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.” Stephen King

“Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.” Stephen King

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.” Stephen King

“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.” Stephen King

“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.” Stephen King

“But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.” Stephen King

“We're news junkies in my house.” Stephen King

“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.” Stephen King

“I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.” Stephen King

“After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.” Stephen King

“Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.” Stephen King

“In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.” Stephen King

“We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.” Stephen King

“You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” Stephen King

“That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.” Stephen King

“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.” Stephen King

“I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.” Stephen King

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The best road to progress is freedom's road.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing” John Fitzgerald Kennedy