Quote

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

Stephen King

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
Actor
Author
Columnist
Director
Film Director
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Teacher
Television Producer
Writer
Portland
Maine
Stephen Edwin King
Richard Bachman
John Swithen
Talk
Matter
Sometimes
Always
Signify
Hardly
Mouth
Mouths
Matters

More quotes by Stephen King

Image
Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
Stephen King
Image
He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.
Stephen King
Image
All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.
Stephen King
Image
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.
Stephen King
Image
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
Stephen King
Image
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
Stephen King
Image
No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person
Stephen King
Image
The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.
Stephen King
Image
The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing.
Stephen King
Image
You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.
Stephen King
Image
It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
Stephen King
Image
I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.
Stephen King
Image
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.
Stephen King
Image
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.
Stephen King
Image
We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.
Stephen King
Image
Without story books is like a person with no soul.
Stephen King
Image
The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.
Stephen King
Image
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.
Stephen King
Image
If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.
Stephen King
Image
It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more that you can do it, the more you're able to get out of it. Everybody has that capacity, but I don't think everyone develops it.
Stephen King