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" 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. "
Stephen King
Want
Rich
Fair
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" I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. "
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" When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. "
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Innocent
" 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. "
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Will
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" 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. "
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Right
You
" Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. "
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Monsters
Live
" French is the language that turns dirt into romance. "
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Language
Dirt
Turns
" 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. "
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America
Education
Responsibility
" I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. "
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Saw
He
Mother
" The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet. "
Stephen King
You
Feet
Stand
" 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. "
Stephen King
City
People
Seeing
" 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
Me
Love
Always
" 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? "
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Dying
You
Think
" The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. "
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You
Feelings
Important
" We're news junkies in my house. "
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News
House
" Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read. "
Stephen King
Whatever
Hand
Came
" 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. "
Stephen King
Think
People
Speak
" 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. "
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Love
My Life
Life
" 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. "
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Smoking
Think
Culture
" 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. "
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Economics
World
Politics
" You have to stay faithful to what you're working on. "
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Stay
Working
Faithful
" Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. "
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School
Kid
Face
" 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. "
Stephen King
Small
Boy
Heart
" 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. "
Stephen King
Awesome
You
Mystery
" 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. "
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Book
Teach
You
" We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. "
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Help
Cope
Us
" 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. "
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Others
Want
Way
" 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. "
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Help
Life
Power