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Tough old world, baby. If you’re not bolted together tightly, you’re gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.
Stephen King • The Shining
On Writing Well
Youri Cviklinski • 3 cards
"my books tend to be based on situation rather than story. Some of the ideas which have produced those books are more complex than others, but the majority start out with the stark simplicity of a department store window display or a waxwork tableau." - Stephen King
Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
Ernest Cline • Ready Player One
What I’ve Learned: Stephen King
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1920s potboiler novelist Edgar Wallace’s notorious ‘Plot Wheel’: an actual device that spun round to reveal handy writing prompts such as ‘a fortuitous arrival’ or ‘Heroine declares her love’.