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Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.
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Stephen King |
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Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.
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Stephen King |
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First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead
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Stephen King |
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never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.
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Stephen King |
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It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.
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Stephen King |
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I don't like people. They fuck me up.
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jake
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Stephen King |
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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steven-king
dark
reading
books
inspirational
inspiring-quotes
authors
minds
quotes
horror
writers
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Stephen King |
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Come on back and we'll see if you remember the simplest thing of all - how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.
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Stephen King |
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Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
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writers
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Stephen King |
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Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?
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Stephen King |
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I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
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Stephen King |
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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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philosophical
realistic
meaningful
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Stephen King |
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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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Stephen King |
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We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.
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Stephen King |
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If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.
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Stephen King |
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Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.
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Stephen King |
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A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.
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Stephen King |
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The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting.
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storytelling
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Stephen King |
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I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
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humor
parents
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Stephen King |
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Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do-- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.
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fiction
writing
good-writing
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Stephen King |
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The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen
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humor
inspirational
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Stephen King |
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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
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Stephen King |
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But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
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sorrow
sorry
stephen-king
remorse
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Stephen King |
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And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.
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Stephen King |
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This inhuman place makes human monsters.
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scary
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Stephen King |
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And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must... they must go nuts. I can't imagine that.
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true
imagination
inspirational
dreaming
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Stephen King |
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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
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laughter
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Stephen King |
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What can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.
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Stephen King |
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You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box abd cover it with wet weeds to die? Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point wher..
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metaphors
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Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor
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Stephen King |
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Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.
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Stephen King |
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You think , but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.
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Stephen King |
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No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
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Stephen King |
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He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.
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Stephen King |
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I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That's 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book -- something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.
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Stephen King |
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So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.
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Stephen King |
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Some things were better lost than found.
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Stephen King |
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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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Stephen King |
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Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.
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Stephen King |
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Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.
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Stephen King |
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For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.
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men
lust
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Stephen King |
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You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.
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music
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Stephen King |
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Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.
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Stephen King |
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A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
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Stephen King |