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Stephen King quotes about writing

Author, Writer September 21, 1947

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Stephen King quote: "If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or..."
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Stephen King
Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however...that is called "storytelling." Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration. Stephen King
Stephen King quote: "I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and..."
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. Stephen King
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. Stephen King
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. Stephen King
Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don’t. Hilly didn’t. Stephen King
I responded (and with rather touching wholeheartedness) to the sweep of Tolkien's imagination-to the ambition of his story-but I wanted to write my own kind of story, and had I started then, I would have written his... Thanks to Mr. Tolkien, the twentieth century had all the elves and wizards it needed. Stephen King
Stephen King quote: "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or..."
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. Stephen King
Stephen King quote: "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the tools..."
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the tools to write. Stephen King
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’. Stephen King
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down. Stephen King
Stephen King quote: "When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word..."
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time." Stephen King
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 OK. Stephen King
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. Stephen King
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. Stephen King

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