Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. Stephen King More Quotes by Stephen King More Quotes From Stephen King I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all. Stephen King asylums littles thinking Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation. Stephen King damnation differences sometimes The brain is a muscle that can move the world. Stephen King learning brain moving Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. Stephen King true-friendship spy friendship A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. Stephen King stupid dream night God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you. Stephen King noses I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark. Stephen King wander found dark If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. Stephen King togetherness crazy loneliness If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work. Stephen King ifs stuff writing I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds. Stephen King gratitude flower sweet Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying. Stephen King growing talent dying The devil's voice is sweet to hear. Stephen King fake-people voice sweet Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing. Stephen King skills reading writing Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. Stephen King redemption hope inspirational All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe. Stephen King creativity believe needs I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you. Stephen King teenager writing school If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered. Stephen King ifs fear God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. Stephen King sometimes Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do. Stephen King saint three people I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns. Stephen King creative mean people