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To write is human, to edit is divine.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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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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Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.
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Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.
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It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.
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Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.
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There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.
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But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
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The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say Fear, itself. Then you have a small imagination.
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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
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