Stephen King: 10 More Quotes on Writing
01. “By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”
02. “Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.”
03. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
04. “For me writing has always been best when it’s intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.”
05. “Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
06. “Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.”
07. “Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.”
08. “I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing.”
09. “What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.”
10. “Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.”
(via nimblesnotebook-blog)
