You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excite... - Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s."

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

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

"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."

"Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up."