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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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I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because ...more

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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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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the...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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I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writin...more

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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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If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and round...more

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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

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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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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

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I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomo...more