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Ah. I thought Ali Hazelwood was the first to use Misery as a character name. Come to find Stephen King named a pig that in a book. Very clever. On both parts.

Section 3: On Writing

"When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story," he said. "When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story."

"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."