If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
STEPHEN KINGWe 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.
More Stephen King Quotes
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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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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A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.
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Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
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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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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
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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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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
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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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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
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If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.
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There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.
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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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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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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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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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You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
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