“Do it for joy and you can do it forever.”
— Stephen King
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
“There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
“Above all else, be consistent.”
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”
“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
“Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair.”
“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
“When the time is gone, you can never get it back.”
“The most important things are the hardest to say.”
“Time heals all wounds.”
“Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.”
“The brain is a muscle that can move the world.”
“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”
“Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.”
“When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.”
“If God gives you something you can do, why in God’s name wouldn’t you do it?”
“Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.”
“It’s a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
“When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’”
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.”
“I’m most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.”
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
“You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.”
“Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.”
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
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