216 Quotes by Stephen King about writing
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I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.
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Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
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Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
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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.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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