As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good… — 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
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. — 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
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I… — 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
