“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.” — 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 started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time. — 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. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I’d read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world’s strangest trip, and as I climbed… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My own schedule is pretty clear-cut. Mornings belong to whatever is new – the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one. If adults… — 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
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
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — 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
So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out… — 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
“Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.” — 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
