I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.
Stephen KingHe's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.
Stephen KingThere were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.
Stephen KingKindle, isnโt it?โ the waitress asked. โI got one for Christmas, and I love it. Iโm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoultโs books.โ โOh, probably not all of them,โ Wesley said. โHuh? Why not?โ โSheโs probably got another one done already. Thatโs all I meant.โ โAnd James Pattersonโs probably written one since he got up this morning!โ she said, and went off chortling.
Stephen KingResistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.
Stephen KingI think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.
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