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In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.
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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
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At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.
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there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.
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The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
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Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.
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Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.
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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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I know I can do it, Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.
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Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.
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She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe
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