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Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out.
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Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.
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If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.
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The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.
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I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.
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Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
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God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.
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If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
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Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.
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I work until beer o'clock.
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Dreams age faster than dreamers.
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The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.
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The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
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There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.
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Pray for rain while digging a well.
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In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
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The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.
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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
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Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.
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