"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
"I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him."
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Source: Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.121, Simon and Schuster
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