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Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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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 things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker
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And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
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Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.
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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
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A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
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I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.
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Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)
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Money can't buy off the lightning.
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She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.
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The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.
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But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.
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It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
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Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.
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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
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If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.
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If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
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Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.
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Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York.
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