Quote

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Stephen King

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
Actor
Author
Columnist
Director
Film Director
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Teacher
Television Producer
Writer
Portland
Maine
Stephen Edwin King
Richard Bachman
John Swithen
Stories
Participant
Sensory
Participants
Description
Reader
Story
Makes

More quotes by Stephen King

Image
Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
Stephen King
Image
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
Stephen King
Image
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.
Stephen King
Image
And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.
Stephen King
Image
City life is no life for a country man for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
Stephen King
Image
I don't want you to apologize for being rich I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
Stephen King
Image
I believe there is an unseen world all around us.
Stephen King
Image
On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?
Stephen King
Image
Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get? John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that? Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job?
Stephen King
Image
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
Stephen King
Image
All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.
Stephen King
Image
The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.
Stephen King
Image
You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.
Stephen King
Image
She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.
Stephen King
Image
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
Stephen King
Image
You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King
Image
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?
Stephen King
Image
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.
Stephen King
Image
Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor
Stephen King
Image
The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM
Stephen King