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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

If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that. — 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

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true. — Stephen King

Waiting rooms were made for books - of course! — Stephen King

Common tools go on top. The commonest of all, the bread of writing, is vocabulary. — 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

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. — Stephen King

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. — Stephen King

For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin. — Stephen King

Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances. — Stephen King

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. — Stephen King

I wonder if Stephen King ever uses dreams in his writing. You know, as yeast to make the plot rise. — Stephen King

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. — 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

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine. — 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

Grammar is ... the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. — 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

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land. — Stephen King

Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act off autocannibalism. — 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

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it. — Stephen King

It is the tale, not he who tells it. — Stephen King

Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky. — Stephen King

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. — 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've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. — 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

When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. — Stephen King

We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons. — Stephen King

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven. — Stephen King

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day. — 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

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. — Stephen King

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

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. — 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

In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day. — Neil Gaiman

What is writing? Writing is telepathy. — Stephen King

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written. — Stephen King

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King

Without Constant Reader, you are just a voice quacking in the void. — 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

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. — Stephen King

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

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. — Stephen King

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. — 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

Writing is a solitary job, and should be taken to someone who believes in you. — Stephen King

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader. — 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

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself. — Stephen King

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams. — Stephen King

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. — Stephen King