Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“People are extremely hard to live with when they have a talent they aren’t able to use.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“That’s no good. If there’s no joy in it, it’s just no good. It’s best to go on to some other area,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn’t the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was the look the talented wear when, after years of just moving sleepily along from pillar to post, they are finally… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot… — 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
No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if… — 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
