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Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Stephen Edwin King
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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
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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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It's not the pain I'm afraid of I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
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Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
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I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.
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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.
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Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
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But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
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I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.
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