Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. — 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
“The spelling in the honors essays was mostly correct, and the diction was clear (although my cautious college-bound don’t-take-a-chancers had an irritating… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear.… — 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
“As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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
“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.” — 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
I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Why do you choose to write about such gruesome subjects? I usually answer this with another question: Why do you assume that… — 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
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if… — 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
