you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, yo... - Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but 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."

"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

"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."

"To write is human, to edit is divine."