I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for lifeโs essential absurdity.
Stephen KingReading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.
Stephen King...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.
Stephen KingThere is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.
Stephen KingReading is the creative center of a writerโs life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for booksโ of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyoneโs favorite, the john. You can even read while youโre driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.
Stephen KingHow do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.
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