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“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
Stephen King
,
11/22/63
“The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create a sense of artificial profundity.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“FEAR stands for something else, as well: Fuck everything and run.”
Stephen King
,
11/22/63
“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor”
Stephen King
,
11/22/63
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just ... come out the other side. Or you don’t.”
Stephen King
,
The Stand
“That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
Stephen King
,
The Stand
“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Very nice, but you know the old saying—even a stopped clock gets it right twice a day.”
Stephen King
,
11/22/63
“If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”
Stephen King
,
The Stand
“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him, making him smile.”
Stephen King
,
The Stand
“life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.”
Stephen King
,
11/22/63
“A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is that ability to remember the story of every scar.”
Stephen King
,
Misery
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... or change.”
Stephen King
,
The Stand
“you couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar.”
Stephen King
,
The Stand
“The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful—at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
Stephen King
,
The Shining
“if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I’ll be all right as long as there’s a lending library”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.”
Stephen King
,
The Stand
“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer...”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
Stephen King
,
The Shining
“When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'One word at a time,' and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time,...”
Stephen King
,
The Stand
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
Stephen King
,
The Stand
“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Do your best and let God do the rest is just one of many sayings Christy dragged back from her AA meetings.”
Stephen King
,
11/22/63
“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Time's the thief of memory”
Stephen King
,
The Gunslinger
“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”
Stephen King
,
The Stand
“A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn’t belong in a smart people’s club.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“you must not come lightly to the blank page.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”
Stephen King
,
11/22/63
“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap—just ask my critics, who will moan about entire Canadian forests massacred in order to print my drivel.”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“the writer is much more fortunate than the filmmaker, who is almost always doomed to show too much...”
Stephen King
,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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