Stephen King Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Play

  Stephen King (2017). “Hearts in Atlantis”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• The most important things are the hardest to say

  Stephen King

  I Love You, Valentines Day, Communication

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

• Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Ties, Shoes

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

• French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

  Stephen King

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "TIME" Magazine, October 6, 1986.

• Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police aren't going to come and take you away. Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language. "It is an old observation," he writes, "that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric." Yet he goes on to add this thought, which I urge you to consider: "Unless he is certain of doing well, [the writer] will probably do best to follow the rules."

  Stephen King

  Writing, Police, Add

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

• And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More". Interview with James Parker, www.theatlantic.com. April 12, 2011.

• He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language.

  Stephen King

  Men, Race, Black

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

• Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Writing

• Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.

  Stephen King

  Shoes, Ties, Doe

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

• It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Language, Bones

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.487, Anchor

• I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Language, Enough

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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