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Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?
— Stephen King
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
— Stephen King
Resolution demands a sacrifice.
— Stephen King
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
— Stephen King
The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful - at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing.
— Stephen King
Writing is seduction.
— Stephen King
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.
— Stephen King
Waiting rooms were made for books - of course!
— Stephen King
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
— Stephen King
I wasn't alone in my belief that good writing can be simultaneously intoxicating and idea-driven.
— Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
— Stephen King
I wonder if Stephen King ever uses dreams in his writing. You know, as yeast to make the plot rise.
— Stephen King
Writing fiction ... is no job for intellectual cowards.
— Stephen King
The truth is that most writers are needy.
— Stephen King
Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for.
— Stephen King
When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.
— Stephen King
Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.
— Duane Swierczynski
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
— Stephen King
Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.
— Stephen King
But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient.
— Stephen King
I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.
— Stephen King
Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.
— Stephen King
He was after all, a novelist ... and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.
— Stephen King
It is the tale, not he who tells it.
— Stephen King
He was like something out of a fairytale or a myth, the last of his breed in a world that was writing the last page of its book.
— Stephen King
I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.
— Stephen King
Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.
— Nelson DeMille
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
— Stephen King
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
— Stephen King
Writing is refined thinking.
— Stephen King
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
— Stephen King
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
— Mary Garden
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
— Stephen King
When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
— Stephen King
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
— Stephen King
What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
— Stephen King
You need to take out the stuff that's just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!
— Stephen King
Stephen King's 'On Writing' is probably the most useful writing book I've ever read.
— Jason Henderson
It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
— Stephen King
I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.
— Stephen King
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting.
— Stephen King
There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?
— Stephen King
Writing fiction for money is a mug's game.
— Stephen King
Writing is magic.
— Stephen King
I think we tend to write out our phobias.
— Stephen King
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.
— Stephen King
