By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more."
Stephen KingโIf you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lotโฆreading is the creative center of a writerโs lifeโฆyou cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Stephen KingOne only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.
Stephen KingOn that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.
Stephen KingThe King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.
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