Steven King Dialectical Journal

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|Quotation From the Text |Page Number |Response |

|“There is no idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried | 37. |This part explains a lot to me, because I had never truly known where |

|Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from | |ideas come from. I’d had some thoughts that came from nothing, but I |

|nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: Two previously | |wasn’t sure if that’s how it worked for everyone, especially the ones |

|unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. | |that do it for a living. |

|Your job isn’t to find these but to recognize them when they show | | |

|up.” | | |

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|“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), | | |

|someone will try to make you feel lousy at it, that’s all. I’m not | |I agree with this completely, people are constantly trying to bring you |

|editorializing, just trying to give you the facts as I see them.” |50. |down. And that’s a big problem for me because I can’t take criticism, |

| | |whether it’s the good or the bad kind....