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Stephen King says that even bad advice like ignoring critics can be useful, because critics sometimes see what we miss. He believes a joke that still makes people laugh after thirty years is almost a kind of immortality. He also notes that love can be more destructive than hate, shaping how characters act.

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If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

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The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

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I write to find out what I think.

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I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

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When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

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I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.

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A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

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He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

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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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I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you…

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I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of…

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I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

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I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

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Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

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Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

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I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

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As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything.…

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Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about…

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The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take…

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I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do... and I thought, suppose a guy…

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As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up…

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My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that,…

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I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as…

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I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things…

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Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door…

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I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the…

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I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little…

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Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing,…

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I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't…

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How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the…

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I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are…

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I think what you do is, you keep your sensors open. And it's - the more that you do the job, the…

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I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things…

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I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known…

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The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about…

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you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

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People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

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He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.

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For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

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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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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”