Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
STEPHEN KINGDiscipline 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.
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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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.
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The past is obdurate.
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If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
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In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives.
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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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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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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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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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