Stephen King Quotes

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript, but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage.

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

It's that drama that drives authors, you know.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

Ben Karlin is a friend of mine and was a writer on 'The Daily Show.' He's just put out a book and asked a bunch of writers from various disciplines to contribute. It was called 'Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me,' and of course I agreed, and then I actually had to sit down and write it. God, writing fiction is terrifying.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.