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" 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. "

Stephen King

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" 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 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. "

" I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. "

" This is not a bad life. "

Stephen King

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

" It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" French is the language that turns dirt into romance. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. "

Stephen King

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" Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. "

" You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. "

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

Stephen King

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

Stephen King

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" 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. "

" Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. "

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

" Fiction is the truth inside the lie. "

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

" You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen. "

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