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Stephen King
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you...
“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
“Sometimes dead is better”
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
“It is the tale, not he who tells it.”
“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it is...
“Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsel...
“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step b...
“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”
“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the...
“Words have weight.”
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heav...
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darling...
“Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you ...
“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”
“I tend to scare myself.”
“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled...
“I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.”
“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down ...
“If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spi...
“I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the ...
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to rem...
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should ...
“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”
“I have spent a good many years since
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?”
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn ref...
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you the...
“If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on y...
“I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "...
“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I won...
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding...
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's abou...
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and l...
“Time's the thief of memory”
“Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”
“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
“never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.”
“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”
“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”
“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because y...
“If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how impo...
“Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ever married?´The cor...
