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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
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I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.
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She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.
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Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
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I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best.He was my model as a kid. If there are people out there that want to write, all you need to do is read 20 of his stories to get an idea what it takes to make a story kick over.
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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.
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Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
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Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.
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and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended
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The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.
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Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.
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Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.
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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.
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As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.
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Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.
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Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.
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There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.
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A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
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Money can't buy off the lightning.
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