Life is more than love and pleasure,
I came to dig for treasure.
If you want to play, you gotta pay,
You know it's always been that way
We all came digging for treasure.


Stephen King

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You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream...
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There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to li...
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It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
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You must not come lightly to the blank page.
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You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the...
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule...
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You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it...
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A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.
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Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from th...
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Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming e...
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I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.
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No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as ...
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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
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The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
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Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
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God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
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I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I alwa...
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Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
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Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.
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Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, s...
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Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children,...
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Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
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It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en...
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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, ...
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Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffle...
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Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic...
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I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost alw...
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Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expressio...
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I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that s...
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There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c...
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Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, ...
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Love leaves scars.
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When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the tim...
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The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
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Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
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He killed them with their love
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Home is where they want you to stay longer.
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For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thin...
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He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Uta...
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She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invaria...
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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Good books are for consideration after, too.
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And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
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Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
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I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let h...
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