Stephen King

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up. ↗

— Stephen King

#sociology

Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind. ↗

— Stephen King

#real-love #the-stand #love

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #art

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies. ↗

— Stephen King

#beauty

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? ↗

— Stephen King

#equality

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies. ↗

— Stephen King

#family #mourning #death

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. ↗

— Stephen King

#procrastination #curiosity

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep. ↗

— Stephen King

#mind #sanity #sleep #world #dreams

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life. ↗

— Stephen King

#duma-key #art