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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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And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.
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I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.
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I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.
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Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.
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Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.
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It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.
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Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
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I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather the magic was in him.
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Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.
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We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.
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Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.
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Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.
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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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Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
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Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?
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As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?
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Art should be a place of hope.
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Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird
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