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Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
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You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.
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God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.
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The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
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He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
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He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep
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You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.
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It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
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I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.
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Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
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