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The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

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Stephen King
Age: 77
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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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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...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.
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The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
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he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.
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Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.
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The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.
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She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.
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Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.
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Death is when the monsters get you.
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Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
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I believe there is an unseen world all around us.
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Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.
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What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.
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The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
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Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.
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