I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.
I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.
Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.
'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
