Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should f... - Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

"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. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway."

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

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

"I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh."