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Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Stephen King

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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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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When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.
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By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.
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I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that it's like a license to steal.
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I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.
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Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.
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Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
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I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.
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She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.
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Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.
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The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.
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The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.
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I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.
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For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
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Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
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Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as they might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.
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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
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Make-up covers a multitude of sins.
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Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
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