Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just g... - Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

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

"Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s."

"Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects."