I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Even after a thousand pages we don’t want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. — 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
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Because it makes me happy when the words fall together and the picture comes and the make-believe people do things that delight… — 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
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
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of… — 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
Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. When it comes to actually pulling this off, the writer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expression of sincere concentration he always wore… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I… — 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
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. — 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
![“Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c88/stephen-king-13_computer_kids-absolutely-not-reading-i-think-it-s_305090.jpg)
