Billy Summers Quotes

“You can't help how you feel. Feelings are like breathing. They come in and go out.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“He thinks writing is also a kind of war, one you fight with yourself. The story is what you carry and every time you add to it, it gets heavier.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“It’s just that if there’s a God, he’s doing a piss poor job.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“There aren’t just 2 kinds of people, good and bad, like I thought when I was a kid who got most of his ideas on how people act from TV. There are 3. The third type of people go along to get along, like Deputy F.W.S. Malkin told me to do. Those are the most people in the world and I think they are gray people. They will not hurt you (at least on purpose) but they won’t help you much, either. They will say do what you want and God help you.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“Try to write your own story. Consider writing about yourself, or rewriting something in your life you wished had gone differently. Then, be brave and share with someone what you’ve written. How did this process feel for you?”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“By then I was a teenager, and teenagers say anything to hurt when they are hurting.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“Did you know that could happen? Did you know you could sit in front of the screen or a pad of paper and change the world? It doesn't last, the world always comes back, but before it does, it's awesome. It's everything, because you can have things the way you want. And I want you to still be alive. In the story you are, and always will be.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“When I was writing, I forgot to be sad. I forgot to worry about the future. I forgot where I was. I didn’t know that could happen. I”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“Writing is good. He’s always wanted to do it, and now he is. That’s good. Only who knew it hurt so much?”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“I guess most jokes have some truth in them and that's what makes them funny.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“there’s no sense worrying about what you can’t control. Doing that is a good way to go crazy.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“Bad people need to pay a price. And the price should be high.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“And way across, on the other side, this is crazy, but I thought I saw that hotel you talked about. Then I blinked my eyes—the wind was so strong they were tearing up—and when I looked again, it was gone.” Bucky doesn’t smile. “You’re not the only person who’s seen that. I’m not a superstitious man, but I wouldn’t go anywhere near where the Overlook Hotel used to stand. Bad stuff happened there.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“God doesn’t have a plan, He throws pickup sticks.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“He waits. The time passes. It always does.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“Feelings are like breathing, they come in and go out.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“Did you know that you could sit in front of a screen or a pad of paper and change the world? It doesn’t last, the world always comes back, but before it does, it’s awesome. It’s everything.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“All over the world there are half-finished books - memoirs, poetry novels, surefire plans for getting thin or getting rich - in desk drawers, because the work got too heavy for the people trying to carry it and they put it down”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“Probably on one of those NPR shows where everyone sounds smart and full of Prozac”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“What I know is men like him are above justice in most cases. Except the kind we gave him.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“When I was writing, I forgot to be sad. I forgot to worry about the future. I forgot where I was. I didn't know that could happen.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“He can’t change his past but he means to change his future. He also intends to have his payday. He earned it.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“you make your plan and hope the stuff you don’t foresee won’t show up to bite you in the ass.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“Billy likes people, and he likes to keep them at arms’ length. It sounds like a contradiction, but it’s not.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“wouldn’t go anywhere near where the Overlook Hotel used to stand. Bad stuff happened there.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“Billy doesn't care if it rains, sleets, snows, or shits bananas.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“How do you know you're an idiot? Because if everyone is looking at you like they are now, you're an idiot.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“...to see her sitting there and looking up at the stars, that means something. It might not if things go wrong, but right now it does. He gave her the mountains and the stars, not to own but at least to look at, and that means a lot.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“...Billy doubts that any woman ever heals completely after being raped. It leaves a scar and he guesses that on some days the scar aches. He guesses that even ten years later--twenty, thirty--it still aches.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“He has no problem with bad people paying to have other bad people killed. He basically sees himself as a garbageman with a gun.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers