“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
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — 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
“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is… — 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
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — 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
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
“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell… — 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
“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
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
