Stephen King Quotes

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done well, there's nothing like it. It's pure.

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

The special skills necessary for being a storyteller are really very simple. I actually talked about them in a book of mine called 'Tell Me a Tale.' Those basic skills are to listen, to observe, to remember, and to share.

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches — nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed.

For me, my brand is good storytelling.

I do love storytelling.

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

It's one thing to narrate a story and another thing to execute it.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.