When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Books have a smell, for instance. One that gets better—more nostalgic—as the years go by. Does this gadget of yours have a… — 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
I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from 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
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What she discovered was mostly shelves of battered paperbacks, not exactly the insulation she’d had in mind, and when the dynamite bundle… — 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
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — 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
“He feels a kind of holy exaltation as he goes about the business of writing this story; he even feels that he… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you're writing primarily for one person besides yourself, I'd advise you pay very close attention to that person's opinion (I know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. — 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
