Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Stephen King Quote that Hit Home

This quote exactly sums up why I started writing. I could not have said it better myself. I still have these things to say that sometimes seem like words cannot do justice. That is the writer's job. Make them come as close as you can to the things in your head. The better you do that, the more people recognize your heart in your work.
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
Stephen King, Different Seasons

 

2 comments:

  1. why did that make me feel so melacholic... but i love it, sounds like something a poet would... does it make me weird because i think that way!

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  2. It does me too, but in a way that makes me feel less along, you know?

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