This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit."Stephen King, On Writing
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Related Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says th... MICHAEL KORYTA Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw... MARY GARDEN Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now e... DEYTH BANGER All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to ... STEPHEN KING They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too. STEPHEN KING I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... CLIVE CUSSLER Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. STEPHEN KING Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people. DANA STABENOW What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen... STEPHEN KING I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. ... ANNA AKANA Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the futur... ANNE RICE Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer. MICKEY SPILLANE Want a balloon? STEPHEN KING I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia. TRACY CHAPMAN As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start ... STEPHEN KING (BEWARE) Stephen King interviews and speeches are incrediable very powerful. DEYTH BANGER I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King. CLIVE CUSSLER When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writ... JON KATZ It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en... STEPHEN KING I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' be... ANDREW CARROLL Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n... BRET ELLIS Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n... BRET EASTON ELLIS The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the... VICTOR LAVALLE As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I al... ERIK LARSON Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing? EVAN HUNTER I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'... ERIC BROWN Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains ... GARY KRIST Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu... CHRIS MATTHEWS It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the wo... JOYCE CAROL OATES Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally. STEPHEN KING The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but t... TEJU COLE All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... ROBERT HARRIS When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'... RALPH PETERS I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgi... ALEXANDER KOCH Short Brief Story, How I started to make this which you see today? I'm talking about the works... DEYTH BANGER Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book rea... W.H. AUDEN You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you goi... JENNIFER DONNELLY When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King. LESLIE FIEDLER The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a ... BEN E. KING Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable.... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method... WALTER BENJAMIN I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'... ERNEST HEMINGWAY While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because... GERALDINE BROOKS If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with re... STEPHEN KING Write it down now! You may never know who will read it tomorrow! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Your hair is winter fire, January embers. My heart burns there, too. -Stephen King, I... STEPHEN KING There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas... MICHAEL MORPURGO The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which... STEPHEN KING Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made... HARUKI MURAKAMI When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people... ROALD DAHL stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE STEPHEN KING Stephen King couldn't come up with a monster worse than this guy, STEVE RELFORD I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid... ERNEST HEMINGWAY When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ... MATTHEW QUICK That's why they call him 'The King,' I guess. It was a bad pass, but he made it look real good. DONYELL MARSHALL I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape at... STEPHEN KING Stephen King was rejected 30 times before he finally gave up on getting his first book Carrie publis... LORI R TAYLOR Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges. STEPHEN KING The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to... LAWRENCE KASDAN At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a... TRACY KIDDER I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. ANN PATCHETT That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He... RAYMOND CHANDLER It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as... JEFF ABBOTT I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would l... IAN FRAZIER This two quotes make me laugh "Andre Linoge: Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, COME ON I... DEYTH BANGER Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex s... TIM HARFORD A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particu... KEVIN GUILFOILE I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. P... A. S. BYATT I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. HILAIRE BELLOC I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it. BENJAMIN PERCY Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It'... GRETCHEN RUBIN I have always liked it, it is still my favorite book. I do not like my writing, but I like this book... WILLIAM GOLDMAN Oracle still has not released an official patch, so it is still leaving its customers at risk. It is... DAVID LITCHFIELD I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf... NNEDI OKORAFOR I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know... ALBERTO CAEIRO Stephen King is a powerful guy, will powerful vocabulary. DEYTH BANGER There's a bunch of Stephen King books I love. 'Salem's Lot' was always one of my fav... PAUL CLEAVE There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's so... JOE HALDEMAN I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to wr... SALMAN RUSHDIE I am very excited about working with Rodmell Press owners Donald Moyer and Linda Cogozzo, who really... DENNIS LEWIS I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The m... CRAIG SILVEY I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only u... TAYLOR JENKINS REID The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I ke... HARLAN COBEN I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls.... ALICE MUNRO It feels a little scary for most writers because when you're writing, you're completely in charge �... MICHAEL CHABON Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writin... SUZE ORMAN As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helpin... ROBERT DARNTON I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But... LISA GARDNER When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I w... ERIN MORGENSTERN I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single... BETH REVIS Suicide. It's something I've been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about ... JAY ASHER It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 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