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Coming Apart

by Karen Heenan (Goodreads Author)

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No Place to Be Single

by Felicia Kingsley

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Mar 07, 2026 08:08PM

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A Lie Worth Living (Grace Miller, #1)

by Simon King (Goodreads Author)

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The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson

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think suddenly about what it means to grow old. It means that all those that you loved as a youth become nothing but photographs on a wall, words in a story, memories in a heart.

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

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“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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

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“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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