One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones. — 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
If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an… — 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
