Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
STEPHEN KINGAnything 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.
More Stephen King Quotes
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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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Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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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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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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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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We don’t know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better after all.
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
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A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
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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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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.
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