That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.


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The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.
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The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING
If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifeti...
A.S. KING
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
STEPHEN KING
It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
STEPHEN KING
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...
STEPHEN KING
Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...
STEPHEN KING
We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy...
FLORENCE KING
Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that...
STEPHEN KING
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they d...
STEPHEN KING
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
STEPHEN KING
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because wo...
STEPHEN KING
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
STEPHEN KING
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
STEPHEN KING
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe...
STEPHEN KING
[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
STEPHEN KING
It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go...
STEPHEN KING
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take ...
STEPHEN KING
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must ...
STEPHEN KING
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
STEPHEN KING
As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I...
A.S. KING
As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it arou...
A.S. KING
I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away ...
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
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING