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  • April 17th, 2012 12:47pm

    Writing controlled fiction is called ‘plotting’. Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however… that is called ‘storytelling’. Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.

    — Stephen King – “‘Salem’s Lot”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)

  • April 17th, 2012 1:04am

    That’s all we do, isn’t it – look at things and try new drinks?

    — Ernest Hemingway (via damninsomniac)

  • April 14th, 2012 8:40pm

    I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

    — Stephen King (via krisnoel-lionhead)

  • April 13th, 2012 12:34pm

    fuckyeah-unclesteve:

    The queued quote posts for the next ~five months are about 50% Dark Tower.

    I think something like 75% of the Stephen King quotes I’ve posted/reposted have been from The Dark Tower series, lol. Cry no pardon, Gunslinger!

  • April 13th, 2012 12:28pm

    Darkness loves him. He dances with it like a lover and the moon comes up over the purple hill and what was sweet smells sour. Smells like poison.

    — Stephen King – “Lisey’s Story”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)

  • April 10th, 2012 10:57am

    Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

    — C.S. Lewis 

  • April 9th, 2012 12:45pm

    Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

    — Stephen King – The Dead Zone. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)

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