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A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

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How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

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

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No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. They’re the real ghosts.

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Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world ...more

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I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?

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Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. Fr...more

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Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her head slowly.Men and women who can't get over their pa...more

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There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or compute...more

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It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. ...more

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…but I guess you can never wash anything completely away, not from this dark glass of a world, and now I saw them again, a tangle of names overlying o...more

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Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

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Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw S...more