The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.”
“I write for love, but love doesn’t pay the bills.”
“Something else I want you to know: how glad I am, Constant Reader, that we’re both still here. Cool, isn’t it?”
“I hate the assumption that you can’t write about something because you haven’t experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also suggests that some leaps of identification are impossible. I refuse to accept that, because it leads to the conclusion that real change is beyond us, and so is empathy. The idea is false on the evidence. Like shit, change happens.”
“There’s an old joke about Alzheimer’s: the good news is that you meet new people every day.”
“All I can say in my own defense is quot libros, quam breve tempus—so many books, so little time (and yes, I have the tee-shirt).”
“There is a folk tale that before birth, every human soul knows all the secrets of life and death and the universe. But then, just before birth, an angel leans down, puts his finger to the new baby’s lips, and whispers “Shhh.”’ Harris touches his philtrum. ‘According to the story, this is the mark left by the angel’s finger. Every human being has one.”
“And do come a little closer. I don’t bite. Except . . . we’ve known each other for a very long time, and I suspect you know that’s not entirely true. Is it? I”
“People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.”
“Easy reading is the product of hard writing,”
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