If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Stephen KingIn the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.
Stephen KingBut still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa...
Stephen KingBut there was only that silence, as in the five or ten minutes before a vicious thundersquall strikes, when the purple heads stack up in the sky overhead and the light turns a queer purple-yellow and the wind dies completely.
Stephen KingGive me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
Stephen KingTags: on-writing horror stephen-king king
No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.
Stephen KingTags: privacy
Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so that sleep would come, and their terrors were so tame and domestic: the job, the money, what the teacher will think if I can't get Jennie nicer clothes, does my wife still love me, who are my friends. They were pallid compared to the fears every child lies cheek and jowl with in his dark bed, with no one to confess to in hope of perfect understanding but another child. There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach. The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.
Stephen KingTags: fear
If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.
Stephen KingTags: fear
In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.
Stephen KingDo you drink?"
"Of course,I just said I was a writer.
Tags: drinking writer stereotypes
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