Your Daily Inspiration by Stephen King Quotes
Discover the wisdom and motivation behind the words of one of the greatest storytellers, Stephen King. From creativity to perseverance, his quotes inspire and empower you to write your own success story. Explore now and let his words spark your imagination!
“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
“Write with the door closed rewrite with the door open.”
“Do it for joy and you can do it forever.”
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all other; read a lot and write a lot.”
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot hard work.”
“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.”
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
“Books are the prefect entertainment; no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
“There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.”
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
“Above all else, be consistent.”
“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darling.”
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.”
“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. their feathers are just too bright.”
“You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
“When the time is gone, you can never get it back.”
“Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair.”
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
“Time heals all wounds.”
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
“The brain is a muscle that can move the world.”
“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”
“Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.”
“The write is human, to edit is divine.”
“The most important things are the hardest to say.”
“Be true, be brave, stand all the rest is darkness.”
“When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.”
“When asked, How do yo write?. I invariably answer one word at a time.”
“It’s a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?. They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.”
“If God gives you something you can do, why is God’s name wouldn’t you do it.”
“Go now, Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the cleaning, at the end of the path.”
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
“Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.”
“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?.”
“You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.”
“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.”
“Sarcastic people tent to be marshmallows underneath the armor.”
“I’m most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.”
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
