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You know, King said, I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not it's the reason I write them down.
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Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
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But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.
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I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft I read because I like to read
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It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
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A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.
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A change is as good as a rest.
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I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.
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There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.
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Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.
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A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.
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When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.
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Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get? John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that? Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job?
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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.
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The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say Fear, itself. Then you have a small imagination.
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Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?
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Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.
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God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
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Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%.
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The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.
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Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment that things are in the unmaking.
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