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Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

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Your hair is winter fire,January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT

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Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

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It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is the...more

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When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.

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I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.

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I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God y...more

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Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

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I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader...more

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So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

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The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl betw...more

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[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.

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Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

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There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.

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Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.