Stephen King Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

  Stephen King

  Father, Heart, Eye

  Stephen King (2006). “The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla”, p.152, Hachette UK

• What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read what they're trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they're trying to keep out of your brains. Because that's exactly what you need to know.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Eye, Mad

• A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

  Stephen King

  Children, Growing Up, Eye

• He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

  Stephen King

  Eye, People, Guy

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.637, Simon and Schuster

• Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Reading, Eye

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Talent, Said

• Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

  Stephen King

  Heart, Eye, May

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

• So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Fall, Eye

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

• Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

  Stephen King

  Running, Eye, Snakes

  Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

• Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Eye, Love Is

• I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Saws, Towns

  "It: A Novel". Book by Stephen King, September 5, 2017.

• I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’.

  Stephen King

  Hero, Writing, Eye

• My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.' Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Eye, Son

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

• What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Imagination, Laughing

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

• I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Hurt, Eye

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

• Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Want, Sometimes

  Stephen King (2005). “The Colorado Kid”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

• They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

  Stephen King

  Eye, Too Much, Fool

  Stephen King (2014). “A Good Marriage”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

• See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Past, Towers

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

• I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Past, Gone

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.485, Simon and Schuster

• He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

• She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Looks, Might

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.256, Anchor

• When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Yelling, People

• Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Three, Domes

• You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Eye, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

• A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Two, Secret

  Stephen King (2016). “Christine”, p.714, Simon and Schuster

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