“trying to outrun the novelist’s most insidious enemy, which is doubt.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The old lady goes back to her paperback (it's Fifty Shades of Grey, and not her first trip through it, from the… — 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
“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies,… — 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
“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
“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
...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often… — 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
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act of autocannibalism.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But once your basic story is on paper, you need to think about what it means and enrich your following drafts with… — 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
![“A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers cannot find or will not deign to use. I doubt if this is true. Nor do I believe the contention of some popular novelists... that thier…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/343/stephen-king-13_assumption_a-critical-assumption-is-sometimes-made_746467.jpg)
