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Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.
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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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All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.
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He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.
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So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.
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The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.
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