“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“If you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“Writing is hard work. It's smoothing and polishing and tucking in the elbows of each paragraph. It's voice and technique and practice. It's mastering style with form, power with control. And I think I know what it's all for. It's for getting closer to the page. It's for getting closer to yourself, t…”— Alex Magnin, thoughtcatalog.com
“How often do we approach revision fearing what we’ll discover about our stories? What if at the moment when we begin revision, we allow ourselves to dwell most significantly and earnestly in the possibilities of our stories?”— Karen Outen, glimmertrain.com