“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The pain in my hip was just short of apocalyptic. And the first five hundred words were uniquely terrifying—it was as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very… — 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
