Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy. Stephen King More Quotes by Stephen King More Quotes From Stephen King The past is obdurate. Stephen King past Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today. Stephen King work-out crazy years Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. Stephen King letting-go song friendship Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. Stephen King stories writing doors What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common. Stephen King philosophical meaningful thinking The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window. Stephen King atheist religious religion I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils. Stephen King horror-stories guy writing It's best to be ruthless with the past. Stephen King ruthless past No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants Stephen King lasts matter life There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time. Stephen King happy-endings mets once-upon-a-time Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. Stephen King magic remember needs Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced. Stephen King blunt edges grief there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love. Stephen King without-love gains risk Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend. Stephen King inner-strength adversity twilight You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.' Stephen King numbers life thinking Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark. May I have the pleasure? Stephen King light dark may You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page. Stephen King girl eye writing The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies. Stephen King reason together may 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 makeup emotional dog there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst. Stephen King optimism optimistic long
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