Stephen King Quotes

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

I loved the world of imagination.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

I kind of write in my own little world.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.