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.
STEPHEN KINGFiction is the truth inside the lie.
More Stephen King Quotes
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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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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You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
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Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
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FEAR stands for face everything and recover.
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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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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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Love isn’t soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
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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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