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A change is as good as a rest.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.
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I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.
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I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.
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A short story is like a kiss in the dark.
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People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?
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Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody
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Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
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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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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
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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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You need hedges.Hedges, I said, bemused. Yes, Edgar. He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. Hedges against the night.
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But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
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Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
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A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.
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Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.
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As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
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Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.
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Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
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Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.
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Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.
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