Άσε το KA να κάνει τη δουλειά του, σου λέω.

“When you are unsure, you must let ka alone to work itself out. If one meddles, one almost always does the wrong thing.”

Απλός καθημερινός άνθρωπος...

“I have a very common nature - which is why my books sell. I am not capable of being fancy. If I buy a $700 suit, it immediately looks as if it came off the peg. And I like reading the tabloids… I guess I don’t have any taste and if there is any saving grace at all at least I have never had any pretentions to be that sort of person.”

—	Stephen King.

ka is always served

“You needn’t die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.”

—	Stephen King, The Dark Tower

Stephen King on Harry Potter

“When it comes to Harry, part of me - a fairly large part, actually - can hardly bear to say goodbye. I’d guess that J. K. Rowling feels the same, although I’d also guess those feelings are mingled with the relief of knowing that the work is finally done, for better or for worse. And I’m a grown-up, for god’sake - a damn Muggle! Think how it must be for all the kids who were 8 when Harry debuted in Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, with its cartoon jacket and modest first edition. Those kids are now 18, and when they close the final book, they will be in some measure closing the book on their childhoods.”

—	Stephen King

Not-There

“Not-There was her private name for God just lately. Earlier in the fall it had been The Great Maybe. During the summer, it had been The Omnipotent Could-Be.”

—	Stephen King. “Under the Dome”.

KA

If it’s ka it’ll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone.”

—	Stephen King. “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”.

Fucking Valentine's Day (2)

(και αντιγράφω αυτό που αναρτήσαμε πέρισυ για την ημέρα αυτή)

"in Spain, on April 23rd, lovers celebrate St. George’s Day by giving each other books and roses. I would soooooo prefer that to fuckin’ Valentine’s Day"

από τον Joe Hill (συγγραφέας και γιος του Stephen King)

Friends

“Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends — maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”


― Stephen King, It

Ο Stephen και η TOBLERONE

“Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren’t prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.”

—

Stephen King. “On Writing”. (η αλήθεια είναι πως δε θυμάμαι να το λέει αυτό στο Περί Συγγραφής, αλλά αφού το βρήκα στο ίντερνετ, θα υποθέσω ότι όντως το είπε) ...γιατί όλοι μας πίνουμε πού και πού κονιάκ στο κρεβάτι. Αχ βρε Stephen! χαχαχα Εγώ από την άλλη, όταν είχα ξεκινήσει να διαβάζω τα βιβλία του, είχα τη συνήθεια να τρώω παράλληλα TOBLERONE. Δεν ξέρω γιατί, αλλά δε διάβαζα αν δεν είχα δίπλα μου μια TOBLERONE. Τώρα το έχω κόψει (σχεδόν) αυτό το κακό. Εσείς τι τρώτε όταν διαβάζετε?

Anger

“Anger is the most useless emotion; destructive to the mind and hurtful of the heart.”

—	Stephen King. “The Dark Tower Vol.VI: Song Of Susannah”

magic

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

Φόβος.

All writers have a pipeline that goes down to the subconscious neglecting to mention that he doubted more as each year passed if there even was such a thing as a subconscious. But the man or woman who writes horror stories has a pipeline that goes further maybe... into the sub-subconscious, if you like..Well there was something down there all right, but Bill though people had made much too big a deal out of a function which was probably the mental equivalent of your eyes watering when dust got in them or breaking wind an hour or so after dinner. The second metaphor was probably the better of the two, but you couldn't very well tell interviewers that as far as you are concerned such things as dreams and vague longings and sensations like deja-vu really come down to nothing more than a bunch of mental farts.

friends

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”

- Stand By Me, Stephen K

magic exists

“Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”

-Stephen King, It

Fucking Valentine's Day

"in Spain, on April 23rd, lovers celebrate St. George’s Day by giving each other books and roses. I would soooooo prefer that to fuckin’ Valentine’s Day"

από τον Joe Hill (συγγραφέας και γιος του Stephen King)

how to die

If being a kid is about learning how to live, being a grown up is about learning how to die.

books

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.

Έχει ΤΟΣΟ δίκιο!!!

Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Ατάκες

"French is the language that turns dirt into romance."

"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries."

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out."

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."