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
“On writers' workshops: "It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“what you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white. I” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. — 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
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a… — 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
“It seems to occur to few of the attendees [of a writing retreat] that if you have a feel you just can't… — 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, anyway... You… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I’m often asked if I think the beginning writer of fiction can benefit from writing classes or seminars. The people who ask… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step… — 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
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act of autocannibalism.” — 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
I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot… — 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
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don't have to make speeches.… — 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
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