Stephen King Quotes

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I like going back and writing fiction.

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.