Stephen King Quotes About Wall

Quotes about: Wall

• If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Wall, Writing

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Simple

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.17, Anchor

• By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Support

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

• Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him.

  Stephen King

  Crush, Sweet, Wall

• The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Wall, Reality

  Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

• Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

  Stephen King

  Jesus, Wall, Watches

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.43, Anchor

• 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

• 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

• There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Looks

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

• I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Horror Stories

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

• I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Thinking, Race

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

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