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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'
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Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.
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Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.
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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.
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If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.
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If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
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They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
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Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
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And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism.
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Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.
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Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?
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I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.
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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
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Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.
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