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" We're news junkies in my house. "
Stephen King
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" Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read. "
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" 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. "
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" God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. "
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" We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. "
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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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" You have to stay faithful to what you're working on. "
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" 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. "
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" Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. "
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" I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. "
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" And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. "
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" It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. "
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" 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 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. "
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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. "
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" Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' "
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" I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. "
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