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
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
“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
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. — 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
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 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
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'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
“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
“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living?… — 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
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
“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act of autocannibalism.” — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.” — 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
