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.
STEPHEN KINGThe devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
More Stephen King Quotes
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There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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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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The past is obdurate.
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The only religions I don’t like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
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If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives.
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Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend.
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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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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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.
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We don’t know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.
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The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
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If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
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Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.
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