Stephan King's Advice

Yes? I was just wondering what advice you would give young people who are considering careers as writers? I guess we should buy your book. Well, I think you ought to read a lot and I think you ought to write a lot. And those are really the two major things. You can't put it off. You have to really do the work. You have to be well-read. I don't have any patience with people who say,... ..."Oh man, I wanna be a writer but I don't have time to read." But if you don't have time to read, you can't be a writer. You've got to read just about everything. So, I think that's the most important thing... ...and then you have to read. I mean, you have to write in order to develop a style and create a style of your own. When it comes to the reading part of it, there's a magic moment... ...a really magic moment. If you read enough, it will always come to you if you wanna be a writer... ...where you put down some book and say... "This really sucks." "I can do better than this." "And this got published!"