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There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal Once upon a time.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.
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...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.
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I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
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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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