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" 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. "

Stephen King

Try

Will

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" 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. "

" Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us. "

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

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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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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" 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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Listen

Story

" Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. "

" 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. "