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

"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."
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"To write is human, to edit is divine."
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"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
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"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."
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"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."
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