Stephen King Quotes about Art

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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.

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

Art, Writing, Filled Up

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.

Stephen King

Art, Hurt, Memories

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

Stephen King

Art, Giving, Talent

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 20, 2014

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

Stephen King

Loyalty, Running, Art

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

Stephen King

Art, Kings, Writing

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Stephen King

Funny, Art, Drinking

Art should be a place of hope.

Stephen King

Art, Should

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

Stephen King

Art, Fun, Writing

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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

Stephen King

Art, Support Systems, Support

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Stephen King

Art, Lying, Chance

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. 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. 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

Art, Book, Writing

"On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft". On Living: A Postscript, 7. Book by Stephen King, 2000.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

Stephen King

Art, Writing, Crafts

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

Stephen King

Art, Expectations, Realization

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.298, Simon and Schuster