If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
STEPHEN KINGIf you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
More Stephen King Quotes
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Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
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The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
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You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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It’s funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
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I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better after all.
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Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.
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The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
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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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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
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Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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