Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
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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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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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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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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A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
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Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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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 human places, create inhuman monsters.
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Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.
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You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
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It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
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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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