{"author":"Stephen King","author_id":"Stephen+King","total_quotes":848,"quotes":[{"text":"When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["jail","prison"],"id":858,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["self","pity"],"id":1926,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee oldtimers like her very own Dad might have said. And then sometimes a day would come, a gray one (or a sunny one) when she missed him so fiercely she felt empty, not a woman at all anymore but just a dead tree filled with cold November blow. She felt like that now, felt like hollering his name and hollering him home, and her heart turned sick with the thought of the years ahead and she wondered what good love was if it came to this, to even ten seconds of feeling like this.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["grief","love"],"id":2035,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. Who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["childhood","intelligence"],"id":2559,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["darkness","kindness"],"id":4456,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["departure-from-reality","depression","escape-from-reality","suicide"],"id":4469,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["courage"],"id":4527,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["courage","determinism","life","philosophy","religion","stephen-king"],"id":4808,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given. And whenever I see a first novel dedicated to a wife (or a husband), I smile and think, There’s someone who knows.” Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["writing-life"],"id":4828,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... And if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["agents","writing"],"id":5387,"author_id":"Stephen+King"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":848,"pages":85,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}