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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
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I think what you do is, you keep your sensors open. And it's - the more that you do the job, the more you come to understand in a kind of intuitive way that you're always - you know, your radar is on. And the thing is going around and around and around. And it's not picking up any blips.
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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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The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.
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...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.
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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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Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear
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The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
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Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
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In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.
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Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.
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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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When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
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I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions.
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the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.
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If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb
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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
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A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
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sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend
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Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
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