Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Childhood belief in stories fueled a vibrant imagination at the cost of peace and rest.
In plain terms
Believing everything as a child made life colorful but kept me awake.
What can you take from it?
Imagination brings color even if it costs rest.

Where it applies

  • growing up
  • creative work
  • storytelling

Putting it to work

  • value imagination
  • accept sleeplessness

Questions to consider

  • Is imagination worth the cost?
  • How did childhood beliefs shape you?

Another view

It romanticizes anxiety and sleeplessness as worth the trade-off.

More from Stephen King

  1. She was a grown up now, and she discovered that being a grown up was not quite what she had suspected it would be when she was a child. She had thought then th…

    Permalink to quote #104
  2. The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings …

    Permalink to quote #106
  3. Roland gently grasped Eddie's arm. 'Even the damned love,' he said.

    Permalink to quote #103

Related quotes

  1. The pennycandystore beyond the El is where I first fell in love with unreality

    Lawrence FerlinghettiLawrence Ferlinghetti quote #1
  2. I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, t…

    Beatrix PotterBeatrix Potter quote #1
  3. 'I would take a twirling baton and use it as my 'icaphone' - that's what I called it - and lay a towel on the floor as my stage.'

    Christina AguileraChristina Aguilera quote #1