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

"When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest."
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"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
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"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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"Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?"
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"To write is human, to edit is divine."
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