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Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination. ↗

— Stephen King

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I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. ↗

— Stephen King

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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 a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. ↗

— Stephen King

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I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. ↗

— Stephen King

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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. ↗

— Stephen King

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Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive. ↗

— Stephen King

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You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen. ↗

— Stephen King

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In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

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Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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