Stephen King Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

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  Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

  Stephen King

  Lying, Writing, Kids

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

• We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

  Stephen King

  Liars, Lying, Being Lied

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Liars, Lying

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

• Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

  Stephen King

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  Stephen King

  Love, Friendship, Fake People

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

• A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Lying, Beer

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.26, 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

• First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

  Stephen King

  Lying, Firsts, Lasts

  Stephen King (2006). “The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla”, p.17, Hachette UK

• The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

  Stephen King

  Real, Lying, Reading

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

• I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too.

  Stephen King

  Brother, Lying, Recovery

• You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

  Stephen King

  Lying, Said Life, Way

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

• The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!

  Stephen King

  Lying, Men, Two

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower I (MTI): The Gunslinger”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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

  Stephen King

  Lying, Giving, Information

• Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

  Stephen King

  Philosophy, Lying, Faults

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

• The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

  Stephen King

  Business, Lying, Mean

• Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

  Stephen King

  Life, Stars, Lying

  Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

• You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

  Stephen King

  Lying

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Half”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

• And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

  Stephen King

  Lying, Leaving

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

• Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Wall, Lying

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.14, 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

• Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

  Stephen King

  Life, Lying, Fiction

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

• if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

  Stephen King

  Art, Lying, Chance

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

• Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger.

  Stephen King

  Lying, Confused, Men

• I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

  Stephen King

  Sorry, Lying, I Can

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

• ...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

  Stephen King

  Lying, Bleeding, Towns

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.112, Anchor

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