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For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle wh..
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life
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Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?
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It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.
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Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?
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Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.
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If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
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If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
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fate
love
ka
susan
susan-delgado
wizard-and-glass
roland
stephen-king
wind
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But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don't think it's in the stars, but I believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.
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If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.
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Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
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There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
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love
stephen-king
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Invitation to Dance- It's a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.
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Home is where they want you to stay longer.
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When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
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writing
revisions
critical-thinking
editing
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It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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living
dying
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Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?" He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"
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Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..
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inspirational
endings
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I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
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on-writing
storytelling
stories
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It was like drowning, only from the inside out.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
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Want your boat, Georgie?' Pennywise asked. 'I only repeat myself because you really do not seem that eager.' He held it up, smiling. He was wearing a baggy silk suit with great big orange buttons. A bright tie, electric-blue, flopped down his front, and on his hands were big white gloves, like the kind Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck always wore. Yes, sure,' George said, looking into the stormdrain. And a balloon? I've got red and green and ye..
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There is a muse, but he's not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer. He lives in the ground. He's a basement kind of guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies ..
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We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.
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stephen-king
roland-deschain
the-dark-tower
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Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?
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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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inspirational
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I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!
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Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.
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reading
explore
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the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.
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man
chambers
dark-tower
deschain
gunslinger
jake
roland
stephen-king
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The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
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The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
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muse
ghosts
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Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
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life
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When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.
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I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.
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On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?
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The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.
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If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.
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He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
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wisdom
inspirational
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All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...
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At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. And that is what the Pulse exposed five days ago.
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evolution
horror
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And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.
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love
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I am your number one fan.
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The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.
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Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
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