CTStanley
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Firstly, I'm aware Stephen King isn't a fantasy writer... but horror is often seen as being somewhere in the fantastical realm, and I really liked this interview with him. I'm not personally much or a fan of reading horror, but I think he's an exceptional man.
Stephen King: The 'Craft' Of Writing Horror Stories : NPR
The bit about halfway down, not the bit about his car accident.
Particularly
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, mostly fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read. It's what I do at night, kicked back in my blue chair. Similarly, I don't read fiction to study the art of fiction, but simply because I like stories. Yet there is a learning process going on. Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones."
Stephen King: The 'Craft' Of Writing Horror Stories : NPR
The bit about halfway down, not the bit about his car accident.
Particularly
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, mostly fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read. It's what I do at night, kicked back in my blue chair. Similarly, I don't read fiction to study the art of fiction, but simply because I like stories. Yet there is a learning process going on. Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones."