- Author | September 21, 1947 -
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
Stephen King
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
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I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
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I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
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This is not a bad life.
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