Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
– Stephen King
Tag: Stephen King
Quotable 466
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
– Stephen King
Quotable 242
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
– Stephen King
Quotable 230
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
— Stephen King
Quotable 134
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
– Stephen King
Pen to Paper: I Write Like
My friend Susan told me about the I Write Like site. I’ve had entirely too much fun playing with it. I tested 30 of my fiction posts with the IWL analysis. Here is the short version of the results:
Once each: Margaret Atwood, Jack London, J.D. Salinger, Ian Fleming (on a story involving multiple ways to kill someone), David Foster Wallace, Margaret Mitchell, P.G. Wodehouse (!), Raymond Chandler, Harry Harrison, and Bram Stoker (on a vampire story).
Twice each: Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce, and JK Rowling.
Three times: Chuck Palahniuk.
Four times: Dan Brown:.
Seven times: Stephen King.