3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

writing is a lonely job

for me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin

Plot is, I think, the good writer's last resort and the dullard's first choice.

Bazı popüler romancıların başarılarının kitaplarının edebi değerine bağlı olduğu görüşüne de inanmıyorum... halkın ancak zor anladığı şeyleri değerli bulduğu, diğer kitapların edebiyatı geliştirmediği görüşüne. Bence bu gülünç bir fikir, kendini beğenmişlik ve güvensizliğin eseri.

The most important things to remember about backstory are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting. Stick to the parts that are, and don't get carried away with the rest. Life stories are best received in bars, and only then an hour or so before closing time, and if you are buying.

Quiet people have the loudest minds

There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer station. He lives in the ground. He’s a basement guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies and pretends to ignore you.

Waiting rooms were made for books—of course!

I remember an immense feeling of possibility at the idea, as if I had been ushered into a vast building filled with closed doors and had been given leave to open any I liked. There were more doors than one person could ever open in a lifetime, I thought (and still think).