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...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.
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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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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.
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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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Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.
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I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.
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All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.
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I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.
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I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.
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The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.
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I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.
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