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Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
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The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.
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Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
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Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.
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and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.
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Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.
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Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.
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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.
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I don't take notes I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.
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Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.
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A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
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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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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
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There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
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It's not the pain I'm afraid of I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
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I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.
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I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.
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Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.
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a cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams of innocent yellow sunlight that are bitterly nostalgic for the summer that has gone by.
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