Eye of the soul
And we have snow. It's not much, but the air smells of cold. You can feel the Christmas spirit. I can't wait to bake gingerbread cookies and decorate our tiny Xmas tree.Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.
Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis (via excessivebookshelf)
You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.
Stephen King, Night Shift (via bookoasis)
The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story…to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.
On Writing | Stephen King (via lifeofliterature)
The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story…to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.
On Writing | Stephen King (via lifeofliterature)
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it ‘got boring,’ the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.
Stephen King (via writingadvice)
(via teachingliteracy)
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King (via wondersoftheunknown)
Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength, and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.
Stephen King (via thewritersreads)
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