Stephen King

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Stephen King is a renowned author known for his mastery of horror fiction, with notable works like 'The Shining' and 'It' that explore the complexities of fear.

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Born: September 21, 1947
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"All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue -- when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap, the way Joyland Avenue did on a rainy day -- I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they are precious."

Real Rainy Day Thinking

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"People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?"

Country Song Sweet

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"It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody."

Christmas House Be Good

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"I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge."

Bridges Long Want

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"Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better."

Dream Morning Writing

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"For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else."

Writing Details Description

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"I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story."

Character Writing Thinking

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"When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill."

Writing Character Tasks

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"I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe."

Fun Believe Writing

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"That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments."

Reading Class Stories

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"How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud."

Men Years Sick

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"She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time."

Hurt Pain

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"But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal."

Betrayal Sadness Joy

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"You can't be careful on a skateboard."

Be Careful Careful

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"By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman"

Crazy Thinking Ideas

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"Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome."

Eye Three Domes

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"When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up."

Moving Heart Night

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"A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it."

Track Whispering Noise

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"Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?"

Jesus Wall Watches

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"If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?"

Dark Light Names

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