I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“trying to outrun the novelist’s most insidious enemy, which is doubt.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write. — 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
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
“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
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… Writing is seduction. Good… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I’d read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world’s strangest trip, and as I climbed… — 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
“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
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad’s old fountain pen wasn’t really… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side — you beat a typewriter instead of your… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But none of them taught me the things I learned from Carrie White. The most important is that the writer’s original perception… — 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
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
“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
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
A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood. — 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
![“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/i/c88/stephen-king-13_computer_kids-absolutely-not-reading-i-think-it-s_305090.jpg)
![“A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers cannot find or will not deign to use. I doubt if this is true. Nor do I believe the contention of some popular novelists... that thier…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/343/stephen-king-13_assumption_a-critical-assumption-is-sometimes-made_746467.jpg)
