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Stephen King Quotes - Page 37

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I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

Life Is Short, Haste Makes Waste, Years

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

Haste Makes Waste, Years, Play

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.

Monsters

Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.215, Anchor

The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.

Believe, Writing, Way

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

Writing, Simple, Complexes

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

Charm, British, Grammar

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

Friday, Teaching, Writing

...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.

Ideas, Stopping, Sitting

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

Writing, Fiction, Paragraph

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Reading, Writing, Mean

"On Writing". Book by Stephen King, www.npr.org. December 1999.

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.

Reading, Writing, Four

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

Inability, Needs, Openness

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

Stories, Belief

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.

Character, Next, Firsts

And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism.

Character, Criticism, Mouths

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

Jobs, Writing, Intellectual

Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%.

Firsts, Minus, Formulas

It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

Dream, Country, Jobs

Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!

Mean, Kids, Men

When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.

People, Explosions, Bounds

Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63 (Enhanced eBook): A Novel”, p.1054, Simon and Schuster

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

Thinking, Ghost Stories, Pieces

Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the flowers on Carrie's grave, a hand comes up through the grave and seizes her by the arm. The audience went to the roof, totally to the roof. It was just the most amazing reaction. And I thought, 'We have a monster hit on our hands. Brian De Palma has done something new. He's actually created a shock ending that shocks an audience that was ready for a horror film.' And there were several people who did it after that.

Flower, Hands, People

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

Worry, Needs, Machines

Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.639, Simon and Schuster

When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

Tanks, Floating, Bingo

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.

Dog, Feet, Rocks

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