“Description begins with visualization of what it is you want the reader to experience. It ends with you translating what you see… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You can’t please all of the readers all of the time; you can’t please even some of the readers all of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Have you ever turned to the end of a horror novel to see if the hero made it out of the darkness… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was sort of like being in one of those love-and-horror supernatural novels, the kind Mrs. Robinson in the school library sniffily… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Books can be objects of great value. That value is created in different ways. Sometimes just the author’s signature is enough to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“That is not necessarily bad … but it is limiting. The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don't turn out the way you wanted them… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The silence was a comfortable one, as if they had known each other for a long time. This was a feeling about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share
“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.… — Stephen King Copy Share
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share
“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.… — Stephen King Copy Share
“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened… — Stephen King Copy Share
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share
Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and… — Stephen King Copy Share
“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to… — Stephen King Copy Share
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.” — Stephen King Copy Share
