In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives. Stephen King More Quotes by Stephen King More Quotes From Stephen King Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. Stephen King wishwritingfiction A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them. Stephen King bearsmenneeds As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion? Stephen King halloweendreamthinking Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. Stephen King coldgunbook I tend to scare myself. Stephen King scarefear A coward judges all he sees by what he is. Stephen King dark-towercowardjudging I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. Stephen King parentkidsthinking Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good. Stephen King differencesrealwriting 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? Stephen King couplewritingwind Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic. Stephen King eyereadingfall Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets. Stephen King coffeelightreading And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that. Stephen King nutsdreampeople He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. Stephen King speakearslife I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. Stephen King shadowsecretwriting Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up. Stephen King islandswritingjobs I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. Stephen King writingpeoplethinking I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. Stephen King telling-storiesstoriesthinking Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. Stephen King mythrealityfirsts One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal. Stephen King bystandersbrainblood A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man. Stephen King bank-accountspurposemen
