"The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction."

Death, Regret, Today, Truth, Inspirational

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"The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction."

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"We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That's how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too."

John Green, American Author

Death, Honor, Meaning, Life

"I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th' election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th' occurents, more and less,Which have solicited - the rest is silence."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Light, Truth, Emotion

"It's my life and my death."

Gary Gilmore, American Criminal

Death, Life

"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Death, Life, Sleep

"I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything."

Michelle Williams, American Actress

Death, Time, Loss

"I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March."

Tom Berenger, American Actor

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"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Death, Time, Congress, Difference

"I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year."

Marcia Wallace, American Actress

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"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

Pat Boone, American Musician

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Explore more quotes by Stephen King

"If I kept saying it, if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't."

Motivational

"He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't."

Emotion

"If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered."

Writing

"About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are."

Love

"I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way."

Growth

"Never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh."

Faith

"The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry."

Emotion

"Same shit, different day, he thinks, but now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness that feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal."

Emotion

"Good books are for consideration after, too."

Learning

"It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care."

Mind