Stephen King Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

• A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Stupid, Night

  "Duma Key". Book by Stephen King, January 22, 2008.

• Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Book

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

• When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

  Stephen King

  Giving Up, Library, Failing

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

• The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

  Stephen King

  Lying, Oil, Giving

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1452, Anchor

• If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

  Stephen King

  Life, Positive, Passion

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

• Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

  Stephen King

  Lying, Giving, Information

• One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a letter that just seemed to go on and on. I poured out my whole heart in it, never looking back to see what I'd said because I was afraid cowardice would make me stop. I didn't stop, and when a voice in my head clamored that it would be madness to mail such a letter, that I would be giving her my naked heart to hold in her hand, I ignored it with a child's breathless disregard of the consequences.

  Stephen King

  Love, Dream, Children

• Don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need.

  Stephen King

  Giving, Needs, Give Me

• I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.

  Stephen King

  Giving, Nightmare

• There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

  Stephen King

  Art, Giving, Talent

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 20, 2014

• But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

  Stephen King

  Life, Giving Up, Men

  Stephen King (2016). “Thinner”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

• the only mortal sin is giving up.

  Stephen King

  Giving Up, Sin, Mortals

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

• It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

  Stephen King

  Character, Writing, Voice

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

• True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.

  Stephen King

  Love, Strong, Kissing

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

• Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

  Stephen King

  Book, Land, Giving

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Giving, Stealing

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

• Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

  Stephen King

  Men, Thinking, Self

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

• They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.

  Stephen King

  Children, Clothes, Giving

  Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel”, p.599, Simon and Schuster

• I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.

  Stephen King

  Couple, Lying, Dirty

• Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

  Stephen King

  Giving, Forever, Diamond

  Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (2005). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, Scribner Book Company

• Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

  Stephen King

  Giving, Bird, Wish

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

• A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

  Stephen King

  Book, Giving, Water

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

• How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?" If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?" Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story.

  Stephen King

  Book, Destiny, Giving

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

• The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy," she told herself complacently. "The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.

  Stephen King

  Eagles, Giving, Four

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.717, Anchor

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