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...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
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Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment that things are in the unmaking.
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As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
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Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.
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It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
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Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.
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We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
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I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.
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We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.
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