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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more that you can do it, the more you're able to get out of it. Everybody has that capacity, but I don't think everyone develops it.
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If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?
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It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
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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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Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.
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Ka works and the world moves on.
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no one dies happy, you can only die well
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After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
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All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.
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Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
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...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.
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Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.
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Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.
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Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.
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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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You cant be too careful on a skateboard.
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The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.
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What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.
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When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.
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Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.
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