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From Quotes by Stephen King
- Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of…
- I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to…
- So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide…
- I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.
- Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of…
- In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum…
- Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get…
- Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories…
- He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls,…
- Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from…
- It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also…
- You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great…
- There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at…
- The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness,…
- Pay and the story rolls, .. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.
- Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
- I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
- Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going…
- I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
- No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have…
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