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American novelist and writer (born 1947)

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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author, screenwriter, musician, columnist, actor, film producer and director. A 2003 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Book Awards, King's books have been enormously successful, and are often featured on bestseller lists. Many have also been adapted into films.

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Birth Name: Stephen Edwin King

Alternative Names: Richard Bachman • John Swithen • Richard Richard

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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

I tend to scare myself.

"Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

To write is human, to edit is divine.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.