Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KINGYou have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
More Stephen King Quotes
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Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
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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 a uniquely portable magic.
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If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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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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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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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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Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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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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Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
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