Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King
I never saw any of my dads stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. – Stephen King
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more youre forced back on your own imagination. – Stephen King
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, its all there, at least the basic elements of it. You cant change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. – Stephen King