To write is human, to edit is divine.
STEPHEN KINGOptimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
More Stephen King Quotes
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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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 mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
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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’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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Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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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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