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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

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" People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. "

" 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. "

" I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. "

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" It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. "

" A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. "

" 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 watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. "

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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. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. "

" Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. "

" Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. "

" And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. "

" No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. "

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" I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. "

" Get busy living, or get busy dying. "

" I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. "

" He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? "

" 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. "

" Fiction is the truth inside the lie. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. "