Stephen King

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination. ↗

— Stephen King

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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. ↗

— Stephen King

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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. ↗

— Stephen King

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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time." ↗

— Stephen King

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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me. ↗

— Stephen King

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French is the language that turns dirt into romance. ↗

— Stephen King

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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. ↗

— Stephen King

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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. ↗

— Stephen King

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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. ↗

— Stephen King

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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. ↗

— Stephen King

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