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Story Quotes by Stephen King
- When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt;…
- The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings…
- Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.
- But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here.…
- The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part…
- As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.
- Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome…
- The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.
- There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at…
- The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about…
- When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the…
- I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it…
- Pay and the story rolls, .. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.
- When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.
- You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
- No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have…
- A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
- Without story books is like a person with no soul.
- When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.
- There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't…
- In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers…
- I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your…
- He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman…
- Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story…
- How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his…
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