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When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.
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It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
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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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You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
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I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.
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Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.
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Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time, there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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I work until beer o'clock.
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Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!
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a cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams of innocent yellow sunlight that are bitterly nostalgic for the summer that has gone by.
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And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
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I don't take notes I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.
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