It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns, it's hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

—Stephen King in Joyland

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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. In a career spanning six decades, he has written approximately 200 short...

More quotations from Stephen King

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: One stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

—Stephen King

I'm not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what was wrong with me. What I was lacking.

—Stephen King in Joyland

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

—Stephen King

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

—Stephen King

I have spent a good many years… being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

—Stephen King

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