"There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation."
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"Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are."
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"When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist"
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"Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too."
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"Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely."
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"It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged."
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"Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please."
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"You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served."
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"Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt."
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"Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back."
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"I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers."
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"there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom."
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"sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?"
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"As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun."
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"You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down."
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"All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew."
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"I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that."
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"Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough."
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"The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life."
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"Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark."
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