Books Quote by Stephen King

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind…

— Stephen King

Writing is seduction.

— Stephen King

“I think that leaving things to the imagination is what creates seduction. Sometimes one can have too much of a good thing. Part of…

— Sylvain Reynard

“You want a drink?” he (Brady) offered. “My friend’s getting one.” She gestured toward Susan, who approached. “Your date?” “My-no! No, I’m not—” God,…

— Emma Jay

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…

— 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…

— Stephen King

The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter of being…

— Peter Turchi

I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction…

— Karl Iagnemma

“The trouble with mimetic fiction isn’t that you can tell what’s going to happen (I defy anyone to guess what’s going to happen in…

— Jo Walton

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism,…

— Hilary Mantel

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

— Jonathan Franzen

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

— David Foster Wallace