The adverb is not your friend.Stephen King
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.Stephen King
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.Stephen King
Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's.Stephen King
There is a muse, but he's not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer.Stephen King
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.Stephen King
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.Stephen King
I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, they 'don't have time to read.'Stephen King
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.Stephen King
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.Stephen King
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.Stephen King
To write is human, to edit is divine.Stephen King