Lee Gabel > Lee's Quotes

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

“I don't think there's anything sweeter on God's green earth than scaring the living shit out of people.”
― Stephen King

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.”
― Roger Ebert

“Talent is as common as table salt. The difference between a talented person and a successful one is a lot of hard work.”
― Stephen King

“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”
― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams

“Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.”
― Lawrence Kasdan

“Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.”
― Hugh Laurie

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”
― Aaron Sorkin

“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.”
― Paul Tillich

“Let go, or be dragged.”
― Zen proverb

“If today were the last day of [your] life, would [you] want to do what [you are] about to do today? And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, [you] know [you] need to change something.”
― Steve Jobs