The best Quotes from The Stand

The best Quotes from The Stand

The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday. The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Stephen King

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I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

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J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Stephen King - about Harry Potter

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Joanne K. Rowling Quotes about Harry Potter

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

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

Stephen King in The Dark Tower

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Lies Truth Enemies & Opponents

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

Stephen King in Doctor Sleep

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It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Stephen King

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

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Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

William Shakespeare in Richard II

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Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

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Words Love Writing

After all, only so much we can say,
words can lose their meaning, once you walk away.

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Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

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Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

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Stories Writing

Billy Freeman: "Not many ride the bus this far north. Are you running away from something?"
Danny Torrance: "I'm running away from myself, I guess."

Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep

Now, you need to listen to me. The world is a hungry place, a dangerous place, and a dark place. I’ve only met two or three people like us. They died. When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining.

Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep

When I was a kid, there was a place, a dark place. They closed it down, and let it rot. But the things that live there, they come back.

Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep

'I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?' She studied him, her eyes grave. 'Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.'

Stephen King in Doctor Sleep

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The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

Stephen King in Pet Sematary

Maybe she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

Stephen King in Pet Sematary

There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

Stephen King in Pet Sematary

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

Stephen King in Pet Sematary

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

Stephen King in The Shining

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

Stephen King in The Shining

Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.

Stephen King in The Shining

I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.

Stephen King in The Shining

Time is a face on the water

Stephen King in The Dark Tower - Glas

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And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

Stephen King in The Dark Tower

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Never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

Stephen King in The Dark Tower

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

Stephen King in The Dark Tower

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

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Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

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A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

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Experience Past

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Stephen King in It

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Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. 'Grownups are the real monsters', he thought.

Stephen King in It

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What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

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Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Stephen King in It

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The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

Stephen King in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are a-sholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Stephen King in The Dead Zone

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