A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
STEPHEN KINGThe family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
More Stephen King Quotes
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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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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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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If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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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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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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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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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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Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.
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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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Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
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