The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.
Stephen KingWhenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.
Stephen KingI never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens... this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.
Stephen KingLying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.
Stephen King