R.K. King Quotes

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable.

I always plan dinner first thing in the morning. That's the only way I can get through the day, having a specific meal to look forward to at night.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

where the world ends is where you must begin

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

At the end of the day, women must understand how they look is important, but not all-important; that there are different ideas of beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder and it comes from within.

Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.