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It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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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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You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.
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Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.
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The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.
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Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
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When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.
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Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.
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City life is no life for a country man for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
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The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.
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A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.
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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
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A change is as good as a rest.
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We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
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She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.
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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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The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.
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If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
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Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.
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Pray for rain while digging a well.
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The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.
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