On-writing Quote by Stephen King Download Open image ““Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.”” — Stephen King ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare On-writing
“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.” — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
“A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“As artists, poets, healers, teachers, keepers of the sacred law, philosophers, astrologers, etc., their influence was extensive. A” — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
“The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil lamp. And… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern journalism.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.” — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest… — E. Hoffman Price Copy Share Image
“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.” — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“¿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 Image
“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or cry. Worlds… — Jamie Michaels Copy Share Image
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe that people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
