"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
"...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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Source: Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
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