Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write… — 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
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing…… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about… — 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 can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — 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
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. — 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
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
I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so… — 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
