Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
STEPHEN KINGIf the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts.
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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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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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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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 isn’t soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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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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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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