“I think we're actually talking about creative sleep. Like your bedroom, your writing room should be private, a place where you go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a… — 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
If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: Read a Lot & Write a Lot — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but… — 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
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
As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Even today I’m not above writing slightly more sophisticated versions of ["I Was a Teenage Graverobber"]; I was built with a love… — 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
“The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He feels a kind of holy exaltation as he goes about the business of writing this story; he even feels that he… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however...that is called "storytelling." Storytelling is as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are… — 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
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and… — 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
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
