Stephen King on Writing Quotes

The scariest moment is always just before you start. – Stephen King

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. – Stephen King

Writing is an act of finding, a way to discover what you want to say. – Stephen King

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King

The road to hell is paved with adverbs. – Stephen King

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes, it can be a way back to life. – Stephen King

The first draft of anything is shit. – Stephen King

Writing is about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. – Stephen King

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. – Stephen King

Writing is seduction. – Stephen King

Description begins in the writer’s imagination but should finish in the reader’s. – Stephen King

There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for whatever might happen. – Stephen King

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. – Stephen King

Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid or making friends. It’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work. – Stephen King

Stephen King on Writing Quotes part 2

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet. – Stephen King

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. – Stephen King

Remember that the most important thing you can do as a writer is to entertain your readers. – Stephen King

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. – Stephen King

Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. – Stephen King

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once. – Stephen King

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters. – Stephen King

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. – Stephen King

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write. – Stephen King

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. – Stephen King

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. – Stephen King

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter. – Stephen King

You must not come lightly to the blank page. – Stephen King

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. – Stephen King

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger. – Stephen King

Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around. – Stephen King

When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘One word at a time.’ – Stephen King

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. – Stephen King

Writing isn’t a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. – Stephen King

Get busy living, or get busy dying. – Stephen King

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. – Stephen King

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they don’t have time to read. This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn’t have time to buy any rope or pitons. – Stephen King

If you don’t love what you’re doing with all your heart and soul, you’ll never succeed. – Stephen King

Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position. – Stephen King

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising. – Stephen King

Getting up and doing the work is the most important step in becoming a writer. – Stephen King

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. – Stephen King

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things: write a lot and read a lot. Read widely, and constantly work to refine your own writing. – Stephen King

The best way to remember your dreams is to write them down and turn them into stories. – Stephen King

Writing is a lonely job, but somebody has to do it. – Stephen King