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  • May 18th, 2012 11:47am

    People that changed my life in the most inspiring ways: Stephen King.

    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

    “There are books full of great writing that don’t have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story… don’t be like the book-snobs who won’t do that. Read sometimes for the words — the language. Don’t be like the play-it-safers who won’t do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”

    “When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “One word at a time,” and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That’s all. One stone at a time. But I’ve read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”

    “It is the tale, not he who tells it.” 

  • May 17th, 2012 5:33pm

    An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

    — Ernest Hemingway

  • May 17th, 2012 5:14pm

    Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens…. My grandfather would say we’re part of something incredibly wonderful – more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don’t lose our place in it.

    — Robert Fulghum

  • May 16th, 2012 1:58pm

    For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

    — Ernest Hemingway

  • May 15th, 2012 5:56pm

    Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

    — H. G. Wells – The Time Machine

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