Duma Key

by Stephen King

But she’s . . . childish now. So she makes assumptions the way kids do, based on what she wants rather than on the facts.”

Start with what you know, then re-invent it. Art is magic, no argument there, but all art, no matter how strange, starts in the humble everyday. Just don’t be surprised when weird flowers sprout from common soil.

Sometimes the only way to do it is to do it.

life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.

Sometimes understanding bypasses the brain and proceeds directly from the heart.

“She has great insight but little kindness,” Tom said. “It’s a weirdly cruel mix.”

Be prepared to see it all. If you want to create—God help you if you do, God help you if you can—don’t you dare commit the immorality of stopping on the surface. Go deep and take your fair salvage. Do it no matter how much it hurts.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.