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Happy Birthday Stephen King: The bibliophiles would surely be familiar with this name! Stephen King is a well-known American author whose book genres cover horror, supernatural, suspense, crime fiction, and fantasy novels. The prominent author has written around 63 novels, 120 short stories, 20 novellas, and five non-fiction books till now. The magic that Stephen King pens down in his books has been adapted by some of the big hits of Hollywood such as The Shining, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, and It. The author has turned 76 today and is referred to as the ‘King of Horror’ by his fans. On the special occasion of his birthday, we have listed below some popular sayings of the author about love, life and success that will change your perspectives.

Quotes By Stephen King

- Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

- Books are a uniquely portable magic.

- If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

- Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

- Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

- I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better and maybe not all that much better after all.

- Alone, yes, that's the keyword, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

- Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

- Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

- Description begins in the writer’s imagination but should finish in the reader’s.

- A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

- The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there and still on your feet.

- No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, and need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Stephen King is also known as 'King Of Horror' (Image Credits: Reuters)

- Love isn’t soft like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

- Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

- The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish them.

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

- When you’re five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen, you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

- It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, and once in a while exhilarating.

- Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

- There’s nothing as human as hunger. There’s no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.