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Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

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For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your hear...more

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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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To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.

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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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Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

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... it would matter ... to the tens of thousands of young Americans ... who would ... be invited to put on uniforms, fly to the other side of the worl...more

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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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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

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