“Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned. You and I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someon…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very definition, short. It is something that generally you can turn out in a week to two weeks depending on how well it goes for you. But, at the same time, it gives the same satisfaction of…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblin…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“All horror is political, whether the creators want it to be or not. Before you head straight to the comments with your list of apolitical horror films, let me define my terms. By “political,” I don’t necessarily Republican or Democrat (although it can certainly be that). Rather, I mean political in…”— Joseph George, bloody-disgusting.com
“Writing is what I steal from the usual flow of things, from all the noise and interruptions and the constant rendering unto Caesar that seems to take up more and more of everyone’s time and energy.”— John Burnside, theguardian.com
“It's not a neat orderly process to take blank pages and fill them with characters and stories. It's just a big fat mess every time and you have to embrace that. I think for most people, they're used to seeing only the end product -- a clean neat script where every set up has a pay off. But when you'…”— Christopher Ford, longlivethevoid.com
“Even as my book was debuting, it was very much like paycheck to paycheck.”— Akwaeke Emezi, thecut.com
“When someone says they need five hours to write they really need one hour to write, but they need those other hours to get down to the depths to be able to write.”— Patton Oswalt, amazon.com
“When someone says they need 5 hours to write they need an hour to write, but they need those other hours to get down to the depths to start writing.”— Patton Oswalt, imdb.com
“I have so much respect for novelists. Their understanding of humanity is next-level and their commitment to word count is borderline unhealthy.”— Olivia Gatwood, i-d.vice.com
“I spent most of my life feeling as if I was the only one feeling or thinking a certain way, but writing allowed me to see that I wasn’t alone in those ideas. Whenever I hear from others about how my writing has impacted, comforted, or supported them, it makes me feel even more empowered to keep goin…”— Lacey Ramburger, writingcooperative.com
“So what I mean when I say that it’s different being a woman writer, and particularly a mother who is also a writer, is that I don’t think male authors are physically assaulted by their spouses for gaining a modicum of success.”— Anonymous, longreads.com
“I survived because I remained soft, because I listened, because I wrote.”— Chanel Miller, amazon.com
“My comfort with imperfection helps me create grow as a writer slash human being. I can (cautiously) follow my artistic instinct even though it feels cringey and scary to put myself out there.”— Chrissy Stockton, medium.com
“Say your shit. Do what you want. Write some words down. Worry about yourself and if you have to have nervous shits in a public washroom, that isn’t anywhere you haven’t been before.”— Mary McDonald, thoughtcatalog.com