Jay Froja

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Remember that the basic rule of vocabulary is use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate and colorful.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right—as right as you can, anyway—it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. If you’re very lucky (this is my idea, not John Gould’s, but I believe he would have subscribed to the notion), more will want to do the former than the latter.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft