Stephen King Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

“Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.”

“I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.”

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

“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.”

“You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.”

“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”

“Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.”

“I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.”

“And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.”