You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.
STEPHEN KINGWhen it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
More Stephen King Quotes
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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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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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I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.
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If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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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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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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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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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.
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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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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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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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Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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