Stephen King Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

  Stephen King

  Growing Up, Men, Age

  Stephen King (2003). “The Gunslinger”, Viking Adult

• You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

  Stephen King

  Men, People, Age

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 06, 2014

• The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)

  Stephen King

  Dog, Rain, Sunshine

• Dreams age faster than dreamers.

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  Dream, Dreamer, Age

  Stephen King (2001). “Dreamcatcher: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

• A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

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  Mother, Fall, Pride

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

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  Kids, House, Age

  Stephen King (2016). “Firestarter”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

• The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to me sometimes 'Steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. And I have to say those things just don't interest me. Why? I don't know. But it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what I do, of the books I write.

  Stephen King

  Book, Mean, Writing

  "Part two of the full Stephen King interview". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

• My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

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  Light, Imagination, Childhood

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

• Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's the kind of book that's impossible to put down once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night. Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this one high on your list.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Character

• If you were a real fascistic society and you had a vocal minority that was shouting, "Stop this, stop that, stop the other thing," what you would say is, "Let's give them all the drugs they want." In a lot of states, something very much like that happened. They lowered the drinking age to eighteen and said, "Get juiced."

  Stephen King

  Real, Drinking, Giving

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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