Writing

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." - Stephen King

"When did you last read a book of poetry or take time, of an afternoon, for an essay or two?" - Ray Bradbury

"writing fiction in America as we enter the twenty-first century is no job for intellectual cowards. There are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or to at least shut up about what you do see that’s different." - Stephen King

"For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms." - Ray Bradbury

"my books tend to be based on situation rather than story. Some of the ideas which have produced those books are more complex than others, but the majority start out with the stark simplicity of a department store window display or a waxwork tableau." - Stephen King

"If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." - Stephen King

"I circled around summer noons and October midnights, sensing that there somewhere in the bright and dark seasons must be something that was really me." - Ray Bradbury

The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.

"Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness." - Ray Bradbury