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

"Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."
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"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."
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"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
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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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"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."
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