#king quote

[adragonslibrary]

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King

[sarcasticcynic]

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[sarcasticcynic]

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health [care] is the most shocking and the most inhuman.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[transientpublishing]

The Authors Guild has been the published writer's advocate for effective copyright, fair contracts, and free expression since 1912.

Stephen King is releasing his new novel, Joyland, in paperback-only in an effort to get consumers to "go to an actual bookstore rather than a digital one." What do you think? Is this small push from one of the earliest propagators of digital books purely nostalgic or a move to resculpt the publishing industry, yet again?

[transientpublishing]

“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.”

Stephen King

[weepingbrook]

"In the stories that follow you will encounter all manner of night creatures; vampires, demon lovers, a thing that lives in the closet, all sorts of other terrors. None of them are real. The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle."

Foreward, Nightshift, Stephen King, 1977. 

[nadjerine]

I never finish anything...unless its a packet of biscuits

Karl Pilkington (Idiot Abroad 2)