A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
STEPHEN KINGBooks 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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Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You, you fill me up.
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Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
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A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
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I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.
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You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
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You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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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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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.
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Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
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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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If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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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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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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No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
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There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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