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.
STEPHEN KINGTo write is human, to edit is divine.
More Stephen King Quotes
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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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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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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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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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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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The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
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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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In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives.
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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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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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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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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A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
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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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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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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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That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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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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