‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative — Stephen King
‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative — Stephen King
‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative — Stephen King
‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative — Stephen King
‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative — Stephen King
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‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

— Stephen King
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