Stephen King

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it. ↗

— Stephen King

#hopelessness #dreams

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit ↗

— Stephen King

#book #inspire #stephen-king #writer #inspirational

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way. ↗

— Stephen King

#dark #eerie #change

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil. ↗

— Stephen King

#corruption #evil #fairytale #horror #beauty

A change is as good as a rest. ↗

— Stephen King

#rest #change

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then. ↗

— Stephen King

#time #beauty

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it! ↗

— Stephen King

#hurt #anger

Although deer season doesn’t start until November in Maine, the fields of October are often alive with gunshots; the locals are shooting as many peasants as they think their families will eat. ↗

— Stephen King

#family

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. ↗

— Stephen King

#inspirational #inspirational

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age? ↗

— Stephen King

#men #age