Stuart Keane > Stuart's Quotes

“The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.”
― Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good

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

“Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.”
― Richard Laymon, The Stake

“Ideas come from everything”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

“I want to tell you a story."
- Mr Pierce”
― Stuart Keane, The Customer Is Always...

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

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

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

“To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
― P.C. Cast, Betrayed

“Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.”
― Oliver Markus, Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey

“Shit,” he said as if she were being funny. “I’m not going near that door. Looks like the devil farted pure hell out there.”
― A.R. Wise, 314

“As a kid, Sloane was fascinated by trains. He loved them, was absolutely entranced by them. He always envisioned them as gigantic steel dragons, albeit land ridden ones who were spellbound by the tracks they rode on, consigned to remain flightless and locked in thrall by the steel they slithered along. They transported people from place to place, but they weren’t allowed to freely roam, they were cursed to remain on the same route eternally, back and forth, their steel wings clipped.-Training the Unfortunate”
― Jim Goforth, Terror Train

“You can’t suspend me…I quit. I’ve seen a new side to this company in the past few months. I want nothing to do with it. Consider this as me giving in my notice. Now get away from my computer so I can finish my fucking job.” - Vincent”
― Stuart Keane, The Customer Is Always...

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King