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Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
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The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
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Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.
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The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.
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