It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

Stephen King

Stichwörter: art



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In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tiebreaking vote when you just can't decide what you should do next.

Stephen King

Stichwörter: marriage



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Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Stephen King

Stichwörter: writing-life



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If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Stephen King

Stichwörter: writing-life



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remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.

Stephen King

Stichwörter: writing agents



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If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

Stephen King

Stichwörter: writing



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When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

Stephen King

Stichwörter: writing



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Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.

Stephen King

Stichwörter: on-writing



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She looked at the kids, who did not see [them] because they were past the age of twenty-five...

Stephen King


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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.

Stephen King


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