"My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age."

-- Stephen King

#Light Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely.”
“One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.”
“What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.”
“The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.”
“Glamour doesnâ€™t just happen, people donâ€™t wake up in the morning glamorous.”
“Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.”
“Having been away from competitive tennis for a while, I am looking forward immensely to getting back on the circuit ... I am looking forward to playing the Big Girls. People have had expectations from me even when I was 10 years old. I try to switch off but you are right, it isn't always easy to do that because the expectations are really mounting.”
“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.”

Source : Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books

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