I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.” — 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 find a footnote, ” a library-science prof once told a class of which I was a part, “step on its… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act off autocannibalism.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you turned in a paper with writing on it, you were guaranteed a hook from Jake Epping of the LHS English… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Your job during or just after the first draft is to decide what something or somethings yours is about. Your job in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — 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
I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.” — 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
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