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The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.
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Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.
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Money can't buy off the lightning.
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Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.
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Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.
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I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.
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This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.
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I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.
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If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.
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Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as they might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.
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The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
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and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.
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Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.
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A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
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