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Stephen King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels.
* He was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine.
* His first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974 and became a bestseller.
* King has published over 60 novels, including The Shining, The Stand, It, and Pet Sematary.
* His books have sold over 350 million copies worldwide and have been adapted into films, television series, and miniseries.
* King has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award.
* He is considered one of the most popular and influential authors of his generation.
* King is a lifelong resident of Maine and lives with his wife, Tabitha, and their three children.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

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Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

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But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

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I have spent a good many years since

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A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

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He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

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The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

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love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl...

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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

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To write is human, to edit is divine.

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For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

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A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

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You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

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You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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

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In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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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.

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