The Tommyknockers Quotes

“Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down...”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“You cant be too careful on a skateboard.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“There's a big difference between being good at what you DO and being smart about what you KNOW”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears . . .”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one.
If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy ... but he strongly hints at it.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“Getting help from a guy like you is like hiring a pyromaniac to fix the oil-burner.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“A person sometimes believes she's seen all the way to the bottom of the well of human stupidity, and a reminder that that well apparently has no bottom is sometimes useful.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a fucking standing O, and in their faces he saw what every poet or would-be poet hopes to see when he or she finished reading: the faces of people suddenly awakened from a dream brighter than any reality.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don’t. Hilly didn’t.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“She had been amazed-and a little relieved-to discover that she was not concealing some private neurosis; almost all imaginative people heard voices. Not just thoughts but actual voices inside their heads, different personae, each as clearly defined as the voices on an old-time radio show. They came from the right side of the brain, the teacher explained-the side which is most commonly associated with visions of telepathy and that striking human ability to create images by drawing comparisons and making metaphors.
There are no such things as flying saucers.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“Boring and unpleasant did not mean a task was 'unfruitful,' a fact a lot of people seemed not to know, or to willfully ignore.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door. I want to go out, don’t know if I can, ’cause I’m so afraid of the Tommyknocker man.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“He was having a seizure of projectile vomiting. This was not considered a sign of good health in medical circles.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“I have just drawn my weapon and killed a Coke machine, sir." Claudell Weems said hollowly inside his mask.
Andy Torgeson turned toward him. "And you never even ordered it to halt, or fired a warning shot. Probably draw a suspension, you dumb shit.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“Karen Silkwood”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“None of that shit adds up to Shinola.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“There’s a big difference between being good at what you DO and being smart about what you KNOW… Give yourself some time to grow up. And stop being your own jury.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“As he drove up Wentworth Street, he thought he saw a clown grinning up at him from an open sewer manhole – a clown with shiny silver dollars for eyes and a clenched white glove filled with balloons.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“Jack Nicholson in The Shining”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“And your mother was down in Monmouth, visiting her sister that week.” Leandro remembered it well: a week of such peace and quiet was a week to be treasured.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“Leandro recognized this for the manipulative trick it was, but it still always made him feel squirmy, guilty,”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“Feel like I just chopped two cord of wood and shit m’brains out while I was doin it,” the older man gasped.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers