Stephen King Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

  Stephen King

  Art, Writing, Filled Up

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

• Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

  Stephen King

  Art, Book, Writing

  "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft". On Living: A Postscript, 7. Book by Stephen King, 2000.

• Time is a face on the water.

  Stephen King

  Time, Water, Faces

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

• The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

  Stephen King

  Running, Brother, Sea

  "It". Book by Stephen King, 1986.

• He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

  Stephen King

  Halloween, People, Appreciate

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

• Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

  Stephen King

  Rivers, Water, Flow

  Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

• How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.

  Stephen King

  Fire, Years, Water

• There will be water if God wills it.

  Stephen King

  Water, Dark Tower, Gunslinger

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons: Four Novellas”, p.229, 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

• He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

  Stephen King

  Water, Mouths, Body

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.857, Anchor

• The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

  Stephen King

  Sunset, Water, Calm

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag Of Bones: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

• So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Doors, Water

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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