If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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More Stephen King Quotes
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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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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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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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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Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
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Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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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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You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.
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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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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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