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Stephen King Quotes about Writing - Page 2

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When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Jobs, Writing, Stories

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Writing, Two, Want

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Get Well, Writing, Making Friends

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 19, 2013

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Writing, Caring, Tools

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Writing, School, People

"The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Writing, Character, Trying

Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

Writing, People, Syntax

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

Writing, Telepathy

I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'

Writing, Creating, House

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.

Kings, Book, Writing

"Beyond cuts: the many roles of a writer's editor" by Nell Frizzell, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2014.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Writing, Pages, Blank Pages

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

Writing, Shining, Fiction

Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.282, Anchor

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

Writing, Creating, World

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

Writing, Horror Stories, Guy

Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important.

Character, Writing, Important

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Movie, Writing, Sisterhood

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013

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

Writing, Mean, Photograph

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

Kings, Writing, Heart

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Girl, Eye, Writing

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.

Believe, Writing, People

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Writing is seduction.

Kings, Writing, Seduction

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Funny, Writing, Literature

Stephen King (1989). “The Stephen King companion”

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

Writing, Character, Mad

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.

Art, Kings, Writing

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

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

Writing, Thinking, Fans

"The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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