It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
STEPHEN KINGIf the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
More Stephen King Quotes
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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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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
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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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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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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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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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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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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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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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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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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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