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" After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. "

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" But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. "

Stephen King

You

Change

" And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react. "

" God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. "

Stephen King

God

You

" You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. "

" We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. "

" Fiction is the truth inside the lie. "

" What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. "

" And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. "

" I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me. "

Stephen King

Love

Always

" I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. "

" Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. "

" I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. "

" The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. "

" In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. "

" The devil's voice is sweet to hear. "

" That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. "

" I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. "

" I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. "

" I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become. "

" We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. "

Stephen King

Help

Cope

" I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish. "

" If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. "

" When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' "

" You have to stay faithful to what you're working on. "

" People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. "

" We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. "

" When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' "

" I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. "

" This is not a bad life. "

Stephen King

Bad

Life

" Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. "