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.
STEPHEN KINGWhen it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
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All you need to do is hold on tight and believe.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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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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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
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You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
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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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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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The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
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That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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Some things were better lost than found.
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Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You, you fill me up.
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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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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Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
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A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
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We 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.
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