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I'm not making an enemy I'm keepin' one.
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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.
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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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Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.
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I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.
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The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.
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It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.
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The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.
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Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.
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To the devil with false modesty.
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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
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Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.
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Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%.
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Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, I'm in the very front row of the second rate. I'm sort of haunted by that.
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I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on Love the Way You Lie is pure genius. Not Afraid is pretty great too.
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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.
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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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Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.
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A short story is like a kiss in the dark.
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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
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Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.
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