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I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.
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If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
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But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.
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And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.
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One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.
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The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.
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In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
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My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.
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...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood the mind is the mallet which drives it home.
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It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.
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Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.
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Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
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I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?
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Politics always change. Stories never do.
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In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.
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Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.
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I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.
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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
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I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.
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