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Work Quotes by Stephen King
- Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter…
- Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police…
- The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your…
- Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an…
- Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty…
- If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.
- If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're…
- Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex,…
- Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
- Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who…
- Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
- A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work…
- A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.…
- The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much,…
- The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
- When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.
- Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I don’t write every…
- Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a…
- I work until beer o'clock.
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink