From Stephen King – On Writing
Ideas can travel through time and space
Ideas can travel through time and space without being uttered out loud. The process of telepathy requires two places :
- A sending place, a transmission place – where the writer sends ideas, such as a desk..
- A receiving place – where the reader receives the ideas/imagery such as a couch, a comfortable chair, in bed..
Quotes
« Look—here’s a table covered with a red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the cage is a white rabbit with a pink nose and pink-rimmed eyes. In its front paws is a carrot-stub upon which it is contentedly munching. On its back, clearly marked in blue ink, is the numeral 8. The most interesting thing here isn’t even the carrot-munching rabbit in the cage, but the number on its back. Not a six, not a four, not nineteen-point-five. It’s an eight. This is what we’re looking at, and we all see it. I didn’t tell you. You didn’t ask me. I never opened my mouth and you never opened yours. We’re not even in the same year together, let alone the same room . . . . except we are together. We’re close.
We’re having a meeting of the minds. »
« You can approach the act of writing (…) to any way but lighly. You must not come lightly to the blank page. »
