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
I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way through all of… — 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
But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word:… — 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
Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. — 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
People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the… — 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
