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Inspirational Quotes by Stephen King

64 Inspirational quotes by Stephen King

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Stephen King reminds us that writing and reading are tools for staying strong. He says you should write for yourself, edit carefully, and sometimes break a few eggs to make something new. He also warns that statements starting with 'In truth' are often lies, and that some birds are meant to stay wild.

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True love always happens in a flash.

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Time is a face on the water.

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As a species we're fundamentally insane.

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Zombies are the new vampire.

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“A veces los perros perdidos vuelven a casa.”

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To write is human, to edit is divine.

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Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

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All Thing Serve the Beam

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“A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.”

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When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

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There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

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A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.

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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

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“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.”

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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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“If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable,I'm going to kill myself,because I won't know what else to do”

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“Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't…

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When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

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If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

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The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

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Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

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“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've…

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Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with…

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“Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything…

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Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with…

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“Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate.…

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“There are people who need people to need them. The reason you don’t understand is because you’re not one of those people.…

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“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives…

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Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

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Death is when the monsters get you.

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Never give a good politician time to pray.

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Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

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If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

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It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

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I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

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Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

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When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

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