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You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?
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No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.
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He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.
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As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
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Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.
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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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So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.
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I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.
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My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.
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I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
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The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.
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Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird
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We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.
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Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.
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There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.
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I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
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