Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“On Twitter at last, and can't think of a thing to say. Some writer I turned out to be.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don't have to make speeches.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Of course, the writer can impose control; It's just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt… — 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
“It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't… — 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
“His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one. If adults… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My own schedule is pretty clear-cut. Mornings belong to whatever is new – the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you're writing primarily for one person besides yourself, I'd advise you pay very close attention to that person's opinion (I know… — 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
“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
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the… — 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
“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
“He feels a kind of holy exaltation as he goes about the business of writing this story; he even feels that he… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's… — 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
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
“But once your basic story is on paper, you need to think about what it means and enrich your following drafts with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act of autocannibalism.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images… — 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. — 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
“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies,… — 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
![“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/36f/stephen-king-13_bad-idea_running-a-close-second-as-a-writing-less_2493954.jpg)
