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Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!
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I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.
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Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.
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My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.
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Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.
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I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.
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But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
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Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
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A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
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Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.
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Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.
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I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it.
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