Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
STEPHEN KINGThe world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
More Stephen King Quotes
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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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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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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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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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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Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
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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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Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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All you need to do is hold on tight and believe.
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Discipline 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.
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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