Stephen King Quotes

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

I can concentrate on my art.

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or the future or how it's going to be received. I feel that I'm very lucky that way; I don't carry that particular anxiety around with me. I'm not anxiety-free by any means, but that happens to be one that I've been spared.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

When I write I find a quiet place.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

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

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.