Stephen King Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Sleep, Thinking

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

• I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

  Stephen King

  Sleep, Happy Life, Night

• It's been quite a while since I was really afraid that there was a boogeyman in my closet, although I am still very careful to keep my feet under the covers when I go to sleep, because the covers are magic, and if your feet are covered, it's like boogeyman Kryptonite.

  Stephen King

  Sleep, Kryptonite, Feet

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

• 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.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Real, Sleep

  Stephen King (2016). “Rose Madder”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Morning, Writing

• But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Sleep, Night

• And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

• Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

  Stephen King

  Home, Sleep, Moon

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

• The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

  Stephen King

  Sleep, Watches

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

• He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

  Stephen King

  Believe, Sleep, Doctors

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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