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Stephen King Quotes about Writing - Page 3

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No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Writing, Listening To Others, Should Have

Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

Book, Writing, Play

Stephen King (2017). “Hearts in Atlantis”, p.25, 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…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Reading, Writing, Two

"On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft". Book by Stephen King, 2000.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

Writing, Long, Answers

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

Writing, Thinking, People

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Writing, Thinking, Bullshit

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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.

Writing, Remember, Divine

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

Writing, Advice, Use

Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

Believe, Writing, Rooftops

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Writing, Heart, Sarcasm

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

When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.

Hurt, Children, Writing

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

Book, Writing, Bullshit

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.17, 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?

Art, Fun, Writing

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

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

Writing, Loud Voices, Stories

Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

Believe, Writing, People

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Writing, Ideas, Creative

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

Writing, Commandments

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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.

Writing, Trying, Matter

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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?

Couple, Writing, Wind

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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

Writing, Members, Polite

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.

Spring, Book, Writing

"A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Writing, Done, Force

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.

Writing, Two, Hours

Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

Children, Writing, People

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

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Writing, Thinking, People

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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