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Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land? It was beautiful, the gunslinger said. There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.
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Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.
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Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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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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If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
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As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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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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Some things it don't pay to be curious about.
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And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.
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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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When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
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As a species we're fundamentally insane.
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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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Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
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Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
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I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.
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My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.
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He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
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Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend
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