"When a man has died, he wants you to know about it."
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"There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all."
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"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."
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"I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and you'll be happy.' I'm happy now, and that has had an effect on my life and my relationship with my wife and kids and even my friends. I've always wanted to be a writer."
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"If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?"
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"Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better."
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"When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank."
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"One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else."
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"The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work."
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"When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions."
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"Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!"
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"Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%."
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"...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards."
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"And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism."
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"The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate."
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"...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves."
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"...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point."
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"The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them."
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"If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
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"...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position."
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