Stephen King Quotes

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along.

I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.

I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.

Every fiction has its base in fact.