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Stephen King
Author
Born:
Sep 21
,
1947
God
Good
Life
People
Think
You
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Zig Ziglar
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
Stephen King
Try
Will
Recognize
Find
Finest
Emotion
Reader
Terrify
Terror
Proud
Go
Cannot
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
Best
Great
Writing
Money
Too Much
Own
Creation
Think
Too
Else
Stuff
Great Stuff
Like
Beyond
Currency
Anything
Anything Else
Happens
Process
Much
Act
Whole
Thing
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
You
World
Closed
Own
Imagination
Back
Bit
More
Write
Supposed
Forced
Get
Refuge
Where
Wherever
Place
Little
Little Bit
Your
Away
I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.
Stephen King
Love
Crime
Mysteries
Ghosts
Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.
Stephen King
Mind
Whatever
Would
Read
Came
Hand
But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.
Stephen King
Life
You
Think
Recognize
Potential
Writer
Were
Want
Experiences
Places
Turn
Then
Working
Your
Start
Set
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
Stephen King
People
Saw
City
City People
Seeing
Echoes
Having
Results
Tendency
New
Particularly
York
New York
New York City
New Yorkers
After
Happened
Breathed
Apocalypse
Who
Keep
We're news junkies in my house.
Stephen King
News
House
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
Stephen King
You
Beginning
Signals
Recognize
Something
More
Write
Almost
Accidental
Trained
Little
Career
This is not a bad life.
Stephen King
Life
Bad
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
You
Change
Think
More
Writer
Talent
Least
Left
Handed
Left-Handed
Than
Any
Whether
Choose
Elements
Right
Basic
Basic Elements
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