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A.S. KING you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
STEPHEN KING There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is col...
STEPHEN KING Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
STEPHEN KING You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t...
STEPHEN KING The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
STEPHEN KING Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KING If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
STEPHEN KING Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
STEPHEN KING During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eightie...
FLORENCE KING People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.
STEPHEN KING Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced...
FLORENCE KING Please, we can get along here.
RODNEY KING In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For p...
FLORENCE KING