Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and… — 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
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire. — 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
