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To write is human, to edit is divine.

Stephen King

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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As a species we're fundamentally insane.
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Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.
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We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.
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The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.
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Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.
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Death is when the monsters get you.
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Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
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When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
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Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
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Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
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If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?
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Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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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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Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.
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Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.
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Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
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