Stephen King Quotes

Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come in at the bottom of the list.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?