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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.
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I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it.
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When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.
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It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
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Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
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Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.
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