3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

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

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

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.

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.

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit 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.

Por la noche los pensamientos tienen la desagradable costumbre de escapar de su correa y correr libremente.

When the dust bunnies and the dreams of what could have been were all I had left, I took the dreams and made them my own.