More quotes by Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
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"I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all."
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"To write is human, to edit is divine."
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"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."
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"you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."
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