I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing Stephen King More Quotes by Stephen King More Quotes From Stephen King If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you. Stephen King being-a-teenager teenager ifs Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts. Stephen King pain hurt world Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle. Stephen King knives discipline cutting I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling. Stephen King men night believe The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them. Stephen King hardest ashamed important It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to? Stephen King want sometimes past True sorrow is as rare as true love. Stephen King i-am-sorry im-sorry sorrow 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. Stephen King writing people school 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 hurt memories art I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves. Stephen King lakes reality thinking As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me. Stephen King optimistic basketball player Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. Stephen King orange apples book 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 filled-up writing art A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. Stephen King successful dog missing If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. Stephen King tools caring writing The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. Stephen King real reading lying Some things were better lost than found. Stephen King found lost When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction. Stephen King writing fiction past To write is human, to edit is divine. Stephen King humans divine writing For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all. Stephen King mother jobs children
