Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. — 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
“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act of autocannibalism.” — 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
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
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. When it comes to actually pulling this off, the writer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever… — 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
“This is not an autobiography. It is, rather, a kind of curriculum vitae — my attempt to show how one writer was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I… — 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
“Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expression of sincere concentration he always wore… — 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
“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
A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Even after a thousand pages we don’t want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people… — 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
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living?… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you find a footnote, ” a library-science prof once told a class of which I was a part, “step on its… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act off autocannibalism.” — 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
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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