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

"I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity."
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"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly."
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"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
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"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."
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"To write is human, to edit is divine."
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