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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

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Politics always change. Stories never do.
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Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.
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Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.
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I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.
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I've killed enough of the world's trees.
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She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.
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Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.
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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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It's Merry Christmas at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.
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Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
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I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.
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I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.
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The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.
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How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.
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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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