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"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing
936 people liked it

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-
311 people liked it

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

tags: books
475 people liked it

"A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. (from the introduction)"
— Stephen King (Skeleton Crew)

tags: reading, writing
167 people liked it

"I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
— Stephen King

tags: dark-humor
249 people liked it

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
332 people liked it

"It is the tale, not he who tells it."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
56 people liked it

"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. "
— Stephen King

tags: terror, writing
67 people liked it

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
152 people liked it

"This is nine! Nine! This is nine! Nine! This is ten! Ten! We have killed your friends! Every friend is now dead! This is six! Six!"
[...]
"Eighteen! This is now eighteen! Take cover when the siren sounds! This is four! Four!"
[...]
"Five! This is five! Ignore the siren! Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room! Eight! This is eight!"
[...]
"Six!' the phone screamed. 'Six, this is six, this is goddam fucking SIX!"
— Stephen King (Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales)

10 people liked it

"... you must not come lightly to the blank page."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
17 people liked it

"Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier
mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay.
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing."
— David Bowie

4 people liked it

"If it works, it's out of date."
— David Bowie

11 people liked it

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

tags: irony, life, loneliness
179 people liked it

"Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity."
— Douglas Coupland (JPod: A Novel)

34 people liked it

"You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work."
— Douglas Coupland (The Gum Thief: A Novel)

3 people liked it

"All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next."
— Douglas Coupland

tags: family
33 people liked it

"...blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. "
— Douglas Coupland (All Families Are Psychotic)

15 people liked it

"I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried."
— Douglas Coupland (Hey Nostradamus!)

12 people liked it

"Adventure without risk is Disneyland"
— Douglas Coupland

25 people liked it

"Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!""
— Douglas Coupland (Girlfriend in a Coma)

6 people liked it

"I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one."
— Douglas Coupland (Life After God)

16 people liked it

"In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

tags: are, dreams, makes, souls, us, we, what, who
19 people liked it

"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public."
— Douglas Coupland (JPod)

tags: humor
113 people liked it

""just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can""
— Douglas Coupland

3 people liked it

"Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me."
— Douglas Coupland (Life After God)

4 people liked it

"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
— Keith Richards (Keith Richards: In His Own Words)

tags: drugs, music, philosophy, politics
209 people liked it

""It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!""
— Keith Richards (Keith Richards: In His Own Words)

6 people liked it

"I don't regret nuthin... "
— Keith Richards

5 people liked it

"I think quotes are very dangerous things."
— Kate Bush

5 people liked it

"They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it."
— Johnny Depp

48 people liked it

""You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!"
"
— Ed Wood

tags: taste, universe
12 people liked it

"I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence."
— Johnny Depp

tags: true, very
55 people liked it

"I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled."
— Johnny Depp

22 people liked it

"When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit."
— Johnny Depp

54 people liked it

"I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face"
— Johnny Depp

39 people liked it

"Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.
But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up quick."
— Tim Burton (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy" and Other Stories)

tags: absurd
61 people liked it

"One person's craziness is another person's reality."
— Tim Burton

tags: craziness, insanity, perspective, reality, sanity
109 people liked it

"I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face."
— Tim Burton

11 people liked it

"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."
— Quentin Tarantino

5 people liked it

"Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race."
— Quentin Tarantino

20 people liked it

"Marge : There's a man here who says he can help you.
Homer : Is it Batman?
Marge : He's a scientist.
Homer : Batman's a scientist.
Marge : It's not Batman!"
— Matt Groening

52 people liked it

""A mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it. A kiss can be deadlier if you mean it.""
— Catwoman/Batman (from "Batman Returns")

14 people liked it

""Stay green, stay in the woods, and stay safe.""
— Karl Pilkington, to chameleons

tags: humor, karl-pilkington, podcast, ricky-gervais
3 people liked it

"Excelsior!"
— Stan "The Man" Lee

4 people liked it

"With great power comes great responsibility."
— Spiderman; Ben Parker

27 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,084 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,581 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,769 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
2,979 people liked it

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