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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.
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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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Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
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Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
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The truth is in the details.
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A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.
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The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen
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Money talks, bullshit walks.
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there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one
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What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.
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Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.
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Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.
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You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.
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God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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You know, Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.
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A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.
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The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
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He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.
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