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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.
Stephen King
I tend to scare myself.
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Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York.
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
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I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.
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But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.
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I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint every line in the dirt like a secret message.
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I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.
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A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.
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It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
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Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.
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If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.
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Death was no less a miracle than birth.
Stephen King
I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.
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The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.
Stephen King
It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, Here you are. Try not to lose it. But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.
Stephen King
Politics always change. Stories never do.
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I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.
Stephen King
I'm not making an enemy I'm keepin' one.
Stephen King
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.
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