“Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images… — 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
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. — 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
“If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Maybe Shooter was a writer. He fulfilled both of the main requirements: he told a tale you wanted to hear to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My own schedule is pretty clear-cut. Mornings belong to whatever is new – the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — 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
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He had written in cheap ballpoint ink that had blotted the five pages in many places. His handwriting was a looping but… — 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
If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of… — 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
“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — 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
“The gotta, as in: “I think I’ll stay up another fifteen-twenty minutes, honey, I gotta see how this chapter comes out.” Even… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or… — 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
I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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
I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I'm outside, writing, I'm also inside, experiencing, and it can… — 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
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
