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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters.
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All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.
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I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
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The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood.
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I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.
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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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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
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If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
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No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
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Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.
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I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world. Because you learn to write from reading.
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Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
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Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.
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Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.
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What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.
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Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.
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And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.
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If I kept saying it if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.
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And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.
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God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often
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