"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
"A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers cannot find or will not deign to use. I doubt if this is true. Nor do I believe the contention of some popular novelists... that thier success is based on literary merit -- that the public understands true greatness in ways the tight-a**ed, consumed-by-jealousy literary establishment cannot. This idea is ridiculous, a product of vanity and insecurity."
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Source: Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.175, Simon and Schuster
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