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She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not ...more

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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

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Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

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Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

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It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute you start to write all those p...more

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Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written.

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If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

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You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!

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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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when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there was no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone a...more

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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.