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Stephen King

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[Wikipedia] Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in

Quotes by Stephen King · Page 48

“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.”

Alive

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

Condom

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A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

Dark

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“I’m an old man trying to give a young daughter advice, and it’s like a monkey trying to teach table manners to…

Children

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As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence…

Being real

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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

Emotion

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

Gone

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I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

Clothes

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“She had been amazed-and a little relieved-to discover that she was not concealing some private neurosis; almost all imaginative people heard voices.…

Different person

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Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave…

Deepest love

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“Outside the street’s on fire In a real death waltz Between what’s flesh and fantasy And the poets down here Don’t write…

Death

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There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk…

Firsts

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“Sour cream! He had tasted it once and liked to puke.”

Gross

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It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and…

Even

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I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm…

Caviar

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“It always seems to be cool in the houses of old people, have you noticed?”

Old people

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“Kojak drifted down deeper, now into real sleep, now into a dream, a good dream of chasing rabbits through the clover and…

Dream

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“The old lady goes back to her paperback (it's Fifty Shades of Grey, and not her first trip through it, from the…

Fifty shades

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“When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're…

Creating

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“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if…

Bills

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“ Boys grow up to be men . And it’s men who cause all the trouble. They’re the ones who shed the…

Boys

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A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

Beer

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“What do you read?" I've never given a very satisfactory answer to that question, because it causes a kind of circuit overload…

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In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.

Anxiety

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“He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn’t the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled…

Brains

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