I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. — 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
“When I was a poor kid in Maine, my collection of used paperbacks was like a pile of cheap vacations.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches.… — 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
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
...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if… — 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
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own… — 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
“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and… — 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
“Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams. — 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
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
“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
“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
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“¿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
“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to… — Stephen King Copy Share
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.” — Stephen King Copy Share
