Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KINGIf the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
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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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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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It’s funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
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Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.
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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
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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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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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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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Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.
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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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If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.
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The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
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If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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