Tabitha King quotes

“Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.”
-- Tabitha King

Source : "Stephen King's Wife Spins P'Cola Yarn". Interview with Sam Baltrusis, www.inweekly.net. June 15, 2006.

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“Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.”
-- Tabitha King

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“I've loved all of my time here.”
-- Tabitha King

“Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.”
-- Tabitha King

Source : "Stephen King's Wife Spins P'cola Yarn". Interview with Sam Baltrusis, www.inweekly.net. June 15, 2006.

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“In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.”
-- Tabitha King

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“Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.”
-- Tabitha King

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“You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.”

“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.”

“I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press

“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”

“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”

“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”