Stephen King Quotes About Writing

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

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

Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

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

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute you start to write all those people are at the other end of the galaxy, or something. It was never for my ex-wives, or my mother, or for my father. The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book, Annie, is because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.

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

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.