Quotes from 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.

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

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

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.

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

The clocks had nothing to do with time but were merely instruments, the clicking and ticking of silver and gold and bronze and pinchbeck arrows, a droll and slapstick rhapsody of lies.

Take my word for it, Calley. You have to be careful what you love because love has to be paid for.

I myself was so often hell-bound from my sinful pride that I was sinfully proud of it. Mama

Things change, but only into themselves. Downstairs

I can't fucking believe you're saying this. You know better. Being a grownup is suicide to an artist.

We were just kids using each other not to feel out of place.

Ich hätte nicht geglaubt, dass es auf dieser Erde noch jemanden gibt, der den Mut hat, neue Menschen in die Welt zu setzen.

Ich weiß nicht woher du die Idee hattest, dass man aus Höflichkeit mit jeder schlafen muss, die einen darum bittet.

Du bist verrückt, glaube ich. Und ich bin noch viel verrückter als du. Aber ich bin lieber verrückt als normal, du doch auch?

Er versuchte, fröhlich und asexuell zu klingen.

Kleidung war für ihn bisher eben immer nur Kleidung gewesen - man brauchte sie um die Stellen zu bedecken, wo Gott von seinem Geschmack im Stich gelassen worden war.