20 Motivational Quotes  by Stephen King.

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“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the bathtub. There’s plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.”

2. “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”

3. “When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”

4. “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.”

5. “Time and tide wait for no man.”

6. “Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”

7. “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.”

8. “Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It’s better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.”

9. “Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.”

10. “When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.”

11. “A man without sense of purpose, even one whose bank account are stuffed with money, is always a small man.”

12. “I work until beer O’clock.”

13. “I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.”

14. “A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.”

15. “The turtle couldn’t help us.”

16. “Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.”

17. “Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”

18. “A short story is like a kiss in the dark.”

19. “Don’t let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely on one gets this far alone.”

20. “Madness is a kind of mental suicide.”