...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminsh them. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I knew I was going to be able to write full time, I wondered, "What's going to happen to the relationships… — 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
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
