Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KINGA short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
More Stephen King Quotes
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There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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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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The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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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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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better after all.
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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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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
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Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
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Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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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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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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The past is obdurate.
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
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That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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