Stephen King quote: "Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe...
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin...
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
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I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th...
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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a...
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When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
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Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
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People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
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secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
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Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
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And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
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Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
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He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
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After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
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(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
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When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
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His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
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The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
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If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...
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Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...
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Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that...
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Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they d...
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because wo...
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe...
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[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
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It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go...
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A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take ...
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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must ...
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Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
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you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
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There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
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You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is col...
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Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
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You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t...
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
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Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
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Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is...
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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can ch...
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His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible f...
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Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well ...
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Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
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There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
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I am your number one fan.
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Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.
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...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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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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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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Do you drink?"
"Of course,I just said I was a writer.
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
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That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write,...
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is...
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they&...
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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to tea...
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Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
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This is not a bad life.
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stop now before i kill you
a word to the wise from your friend
PENNYWISE
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Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.
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College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.
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You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know ...
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A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only...
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At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regr...
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I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
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La verdad no es realmente más extraña que la ficción, digan lo que digan. La mayoria de la veces ...
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What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsi...
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Once again there was the desert, and that only.
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They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
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the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.
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Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
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FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think s...
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True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and di...
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Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?
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Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, pe...
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For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part...
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never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.
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A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
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We all float down here!
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Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you...
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The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. H...
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
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And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But...
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Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.
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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
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Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have th...
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I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I ai...
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There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away ...
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I had a moment to wonder just what he did at David Emerson's, which really was where Libertyville's ...
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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
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There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any se...
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I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, tha...
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There’s always someone who knows something.
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What if I fall?', Tim cried.

Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're childre...
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. The...
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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of beca...
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But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of ...
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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's a...
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I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all ...
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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
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Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give...
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They say bachelors have all the fun. Not so. You just get old and full of sand, nasty.
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The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches some...
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oh shit it's shit
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But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime af...
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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...
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He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost alway...
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And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's b...
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Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend
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All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin ...
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People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wing...
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At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes o...
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But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' Ho...
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Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.
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A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark fro...
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Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
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In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the hear...
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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers...
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Something that sounded like an insect droned past Ralph’s ear. He had an idea it was a .45-caliber...
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Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect
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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been dama...
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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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I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, a...
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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

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