Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, an... - Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings."

"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."

"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

"To write is human, to edit is divine."