3 Stephen King Quotes on Criticism

Stephen King quotes on criticism

9. I have grown into a Bestsellasuarus Rex--a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses...I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

12. President Clinton has made a few feeble swipes at addressing this issue [school violence], but one can only gape at the unintentionally comic spectacle of this man chastising the gun-lobby and America's love of violent movies while he rains bombs on Yugoslavia, where at least twenty noncombatants have already died for every innocent student at Columbine High. It is like listening to a man with a crack-pipe in his hand lecture children about the evils of drugs.

113. This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do-not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less the bullshit.