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I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft I read because I like to read
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!
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That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.
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By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.
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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
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Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
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Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
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She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe
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The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you`re always involved with collaborators and they don`t always see the work the way you do.
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So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.
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It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
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The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.
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