Something Not To Be Taken Lightly

[Robert McEvily]

"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed. Ready to kick ass and take names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page."
~ Stephen King

[Robert Crisman]

Stephen King is the George Thoroughgood of writers. King once said he's a salami writer, and he tries to be the best salami writer he can be, but he doesn't try to pass it off as caviar. Thoroughgood said listening to his stuff is like eating a big old cheeseburger. Well, I've sampled some of the caviar that passes itself off as Literature these days, and most of it comes off like fish shit. And gimme a cheeseburger anytime.

Hats off to Stephen and George, a couple of guys who've made the, uh, cultural landscape a little bit brighter these past...40 years?

[Jamie Hogan]

That's a great quote. Like Bill, I'm not so sure he adhered to it as much later in his career, but he certainly brought it strong for long enough to become...well...Stephen King.

[Bill Floyd]

I grew up on Stephen King, and in many ways he's the one who inspired me to be a writer.  But anyone who wrote Cell and then allowed it to be published under their name cannot be taken but so seriously.  He came lightly to that piece of crap, and the evidence was on just about every contrived, inconsistent, I'm-going-through-the-motions-to-get-paid page.

[Cita]

This is on the wall of my office.  I also like Stephen Pressfield's idea of coming to the page as a PRO.  When I come to 6S, I often come for the lighthearted community feeling that gives me a rest from the more serious endeavors!

[Teresa]

I just printed this.

[Teresa]

Amen, Amen!

[bolton carley]

of this, stephen and i can agree even if his work scares the crap out of me! :) thanks for sharing, rob.