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#1

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#2

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#3

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#4

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#5

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#6

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

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#7

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower

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#8

“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

tags: heartbreak

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#9

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― Stephen King

tags: hope

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#10

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

tags: dark-tower, horror

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#11

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

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#12

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: change, survival

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#13

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: inspirational

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#14

“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
― Stephen King , The Dark Tower

tags: happy-endings

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#15

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
― Red in Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King , Different Seasons

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#16

“When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”
― Stephen King

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#17

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

tags: influence, life, teaching

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#18

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

tags: bright, dark, day, night

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#19

“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: ethics, morality

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#20

“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#21

“Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. ”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#22

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
― Stephen King

tags: hardwork, talent

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#23

“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

tags: passion, soul, stubborn, women

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#24

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

tags: authors, books, dark, horror, inspirational, inspiring-quotes, minds, quotes, reading, steven-king, writers

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#25

“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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#26

“I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: critics, writing, writing-life

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#27

“Do you drink?"
"Of course,I just said I was a writer.”
― Stephen King

tags: drinking, stereotypes, writer

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#28

“I write to find out what I think.”
― Stephen King

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#29

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: on-writing, writers

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#30

“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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