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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a book for the intellectual or the mental part of it, but, the first time, I just like to reach out and grab you, pull you in.
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We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.
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The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.
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There's a saying - Write what you know. It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.
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There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.
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But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.
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You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.
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Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
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Words create sentences sentences create paragraphs sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
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I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.
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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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Death is when the monsters get you.
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Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.
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Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.
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The color white is the absence of memory.
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Weird love's better than no love at all.
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Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.
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Successful rebellions always begin in secret.
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