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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...
“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...
“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Time's the thief of memory”
“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”
“never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.”
“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.”
“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...
“Sometimes dead is better”
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”
“I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you ...
“I tend to scare myself.”
