“Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.”

“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up.”

“You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.”

“When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.”

“Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story”

“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”

“He just kept picking them up and laying them down.”