Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Reading good fiction is like making the jump from masturbation to sex.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” — 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
“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's… — 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
“Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you… — 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
Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way through all of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it… — 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
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