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Stephen King on Writing

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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

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“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”
“The most important things are the hardest things to say.”
“Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.”
“Good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”
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