Stephen King Quotes

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.