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Write Quotes by Stephen King
- 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…
- I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.
- So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base…
- Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.
- Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s…
- There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people…
- I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer.…
- When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.
- Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my…
- 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,…
- Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in…
- I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's…
- Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.
- People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a…
- When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
- If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
- I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed…
- I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that…
- If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way…
- Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more…
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- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster
- Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove… — Scott Adams