What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
STEPHEN KINGThe past is obdurate.
More Stephen King Quotes
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If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
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You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
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Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.
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Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you’re living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
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Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.
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Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
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A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
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The only religions I don’t like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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All you need to do is hold on tight and believe.
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The past is obdurate.
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
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