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My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
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But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
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I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
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People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.
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My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight I never forgot it.
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Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use-their only other use-is to kill people.
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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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Art should be a place of hope.
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
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Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
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And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.
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You know, King said, I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not it's the reason I write them down.
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.
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I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.
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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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A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.
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It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, Here you are. Try not to lose it. But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.
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Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
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