Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.
STEPHEN KINGIf you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.
More Stephen King Quotes
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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 rational thinking of our daytime lives.
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Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
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The past is obdurate.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.
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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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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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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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Time is the thief of memory.
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