Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
STEPHEN KINGThe past is obdurate.
More Stephen King Quotes
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We don’t know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.
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The past is obdurate.
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If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.
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Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
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That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
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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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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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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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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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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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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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