Stephen King Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

  Stephen King

  Feelings, Important, Size

  "The Body". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

• The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

• What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

  Stephen King

  Feelings, Trying, Reason

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

• If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

  Stephen King

  Emotional, Feelings, Panic

  Stephen King (2016). “Gerald's Game”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

• Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

  Stephen King

  Teaching, Kids, Feelings

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

• You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

  Stephen King

  Blue, Knowing, Feelings

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

• There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Pain, Talking

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

• As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Fear, Blessed

  Stephen King (2016). “Misery: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

• Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

  Stephen King

  Regret, Feelings, Guilt

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

• I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.

  Stephen King

  Believe, People, Parent

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.64, Titan Books

• The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Squares, Light

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

• I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead), but there was a view among the student writers I knew at that time that good writing came spontaneously, in an uprush of feeling that had to be caught at once; when you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

  Stephen King

  Home, Writing, Views

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

• Of all the questions I'm asked, the most difficult is, "How does it feel to be famous?" Since I'm not, that question always catches me with a feeling of surrealism....I've got three kids and I've changed all their diapers, and when it's two o'clock in the morning and you're changing something that's sort of special delivery with one eye open and one eye shut you don't feel famous.

  Stephen King

  Morning, Kids, Eye

• It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Running, Hot And Cold

• When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been.

  Stephen King

  Stupid, Kids, Writing

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

• My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.

  Stephen King

  Feelings, Intellectual, Mind

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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