The best Quotes from The Stand

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

After all, only so much we can say,
words can lose their meaning, once you walk away.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

Billy Freeman: "Not many ride the bus this far north. Are you running away from something?"
Danny Torrance: "I'm running away from myself, I guess."

Now, you need to listen to me. The world is a hungry place, a dangerous place, and a dark place. I’ve only met two or three people like us. They died. When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining.

When I was a kid, there was a place, a dark place. They closed it down, and let it rot. But the things that live there, they come back.

'I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?' She studied him, her eyes grave. 'Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.'

The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

Maybe she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.

I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.

Time is a face on the water

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

Never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. 'Grownups are the real monsters', he thought.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are a-sholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.