Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
STEPHEN KINGYou have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
More Stephen King Quotes
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You, you fill me up.
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That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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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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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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You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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