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Only God gets things right the first time.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.
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Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
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We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.
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I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
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I work until beer o'clock.
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The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.
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Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
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Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.
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When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
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A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.
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Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
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I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
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By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.
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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.
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So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.
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