Stephen King Quotes

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can.

Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.

When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or the sound of the room it's in. You could write the clothes the character is wearing, what they're saying, how they move, what they look like. Instead of making up, you're actually catching an idea, for a story, characters, place, and mood - all the stuff that comes.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.