3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad', is fearful behavior.

Es algo curioso que he descubierto: a la mujeres se les da mejor guardar secretos, pero los hombres están más cómodos con ellos

Siamo scrittori e non ci chiediamo mai a vicenda da dove vengano le nostre idee: sappiamo di non saperlo.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

Writing is the act of finding out what I think.

I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.