He felt as he always did when he finished a book - queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity. (Stephen King)

He felt as he always did when he finished a book - queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.

Stephen King

Related topics

book empty felt pay success

Related quotes

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.

Sarah Hyland

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

Bobby Fischer

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

Edward Said

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Carson McCullers

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

Anna Freud