Wariant: When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.
Źródło: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”

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Stephen King książka Lśnienie

Wariant: Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
Źródło: The Shining 1977

“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.”

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Stephen King książka Bastion

Źródło: The Stand

“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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Stephen King książka Worek kości

Źródło: Bag of Bones

“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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“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”

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Stephen King książka Bastion

Źródło: The Stand

“Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.”

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Stephen King książka It

Źródło: It (1986)

“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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Źródło: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Some things were better lost than found.”

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Stephen King książka The Dead Zone

Źródło: The Dead Zone

“If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.”

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Stephen King książka Pod kopułą

Źródło: Under the Dome

“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”

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Źródło: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”

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