"Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its tru...
The memories: they are the reality.
More Stephen King quotes
"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wak...
"If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and round...
"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.
"Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real.
"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-
"I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. What I do remember is a feeling I'd had before whe...
"She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory.She doubted if they all sensed it - they had...
"Memory is the basis of every journey.
"It was as if the body disdained memory... or refused the responsibility of it.
"At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.
"For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even cry...
"...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas st...
"Some things you never forgot. She had come to believe that the very things the practical world dismissed as ephemera—things like songs and moonlight a...
"Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. Fr...