Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Unknown
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
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Nicholas Sparks
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
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Chuck Palahniuk
Where there is love there is life.
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Mahatma Gandhi
It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted....
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Henry Rollins
More Quotes By Paul Di Filippo
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write.. Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer....
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.
