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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
Written by Stephen King
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Written by Stephen King
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Written by Stephen King
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Written by Stephen King
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
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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 heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Written by Stephen King
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Written by Stephen King
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Written by Stephen King
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Written by Stephen King
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Written by Stephen King
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.
Written by Stephen King
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.
Written by Stephen King
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
Written by Stephen King
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
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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 all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Written by Stephen King

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