Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
STEPHEN KINGThe more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
More Stephen King Quotes
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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
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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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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
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Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.
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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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Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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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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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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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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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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