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"I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't."

Lonely Pain Rain

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"Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."

Art Book Writing

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"People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it."

Thinking Wings People

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"Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly."

Lying Giving Information

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"You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar."

Music Guitar

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"Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it."

News Clubs Firsts

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"The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives."

Childhood Stories Remember

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"Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on."

Humorous Anger

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"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."

Play Trying Culture

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"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."

Beautiful Night Forever

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"Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."

Writing People Syntax

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"The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works."

Genre Is Delicate Things Horror Genre

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"where the world ends is where you must begin"

World Ends

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"The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep."

Dream Real Sleep

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"We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living."

Fool

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"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."

Way Limitless Glory

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"In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either."

Problem Prison Spite

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"never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh."

Laughing Needs

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"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."

Book Gun Cold

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"There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky."

Encouraging Islands Sky

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