I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order… — 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
“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control--about who is snapping the whip,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come… — 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
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When my first draft of a novel is done, I put it away, warts and all, to mellow. Some period of time… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was sort of like being in one of those love-and-horror supernatural novels, the kind Mrs. Robinson in the school library sniffily… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish… — 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
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — 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
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“¿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 Image
