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"If you don't have time to read, you
don't have the time (or the tools) to
write. Simple as that."
'*Books are the perfec± .éntertainment:
no comercials, 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."
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real
too. They live inside us, and
sometimes, they win."
"A short story is a different thing
all together - a short story iS like a
•kissän the dark from a stranger."
"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."
"Talent iS cheaper than table salt.
What seøarates the talented individual
from the successful is a lot Of
hard work."
"Good dé"ription
One..of the reasonS why you
not succeed unles you • ot
"Outlines aree the •ust resogr&e of bad
fiction writers' who wish t' God they
were writing masters ftheses.?-'
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King •reve#s his
view of Cth@
writer's craft ps
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Designed by Brian Scott I
SOURCES FOR ALL QUOTES:
I) Stephen King: The •Craft' Of Writing Mrror Stories
http://•u.npr.org/terplates/story/story.php?stor•yM•12S23930
2) S b"kS Of 2007
http://*".««m/e„/artic1e,'e„aa16087.ee.ht.1
3) Steßpen King, •Cmflicted• is the
Of SeasM Of
4) King, Skeleton
S) Steøen Kritin8
"I recognize terror as the finest
emotion and so I will try to terrorize
the reader. But if I find that I
cannot terrify, I will try to horrify,
and if I find that I cannot horrify,
I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not
proud.
"Write with the door closed, rewrite
with the door
stopping a pÅce Of work just
beCause it's hard either emotionally
or imaginatively, is a bad idea.
Sometimes you. h
to go on when you
don't feel like
and sometimes
you're doing g work when it feels
liFe all you're naging is to shovel
shit from s •
ing position."
"Writ$ngis gic, as much the water
of life as y other creative art. The
. So drink. Drink and be
water i
filled u
to a book as you would ome to an
lored land. Come without map.
xplore it, and draw yogcpown p+.A
book is like a pump. It • gives notb}
ng
unless first you give tp it.•
"I like go get ten pages a day; wh%ø
amounts to 2 joøø word* Thaes Z18e,
words 'ever a three-mon
in the reader can get
lost;€if the tale is done 11 and
stays fresh."
Stepte King quotes
colle*ed from a&ross .the
. Vlternet. A handfu_l were
quoted \from King's book! •
gon Writing: A Memoir
the -Craft," available
at •Amazon com
www.FreelanceWriting.com
6) Stephen King, (Internet)
7) Stephen King, Fitång
18) Stephen King, "ting
II) Stephen King, "ting
12) Stephen King, On
13) Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen
I') Stephen King,
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