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Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I do not aim with my hand he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
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Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.
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I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.
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It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.
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I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed.
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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
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I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.
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It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.
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The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.
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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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Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.
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I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft I read because I like to read
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