If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the tools to write.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: Read a Lot & Write a Lot — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This is not an autobiography. It is, rather, a kind of curriculum vitae — my attempt to show how one writer was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're… — 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
Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped… — 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
![“I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7d9/stephen-king-13_21st-century_i-did-a-couple-of-writing-seminars-in-ca_2890407.jpg)
