Sooner or later, everything old is new again.
Stephen KingWell then, I'm going to tell you a secret almost every newspaper man and woman who's been at it awhile knows: in real life, the number of actual stories - those with beginnings, middles, and ends - are slim and none. But if you can give your readers just one unknown thing (two at the very outside) and then kick in what Dave Bowie there calls a musta-been, your reader will tell himself a story.
Stephen KingForty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age.
Stephen KingThere are worlds other than these.
Stephen KingThe only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
Stephen KingLife is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.
Stephen KingIt hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.
Stephen KingShall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen KingThe loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.
Stephen KingI have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: "If I sit down and do this, everything will come out OK.
Stephen KingTag: writing stories faith house desert creating idea chimney
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