More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
I figured the shorter the book, the less the bullshit.
But TV came relatively late to the King household, and I’m glad. I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
As all sophomoric humorists must be, I was totally blown away by my own wit. What a funny fellow I was!
Two pages of the passive voice—just about any business document ever written, in other words, not to mention reams of bad fiction—make me want to scream. It’s weak, it’s circuitous, and it’s frequently tortuous, as well. How about this: My first kiss will always be recalled by me as how my romance with Shayna was begun. Oh, man—who farted, right? A simpler way to express this idea—sweeter and more forceful, as well—might be this: My romance with Shayna began with our first kiss. I’ll never forget it. I’m not in love with this because it uses with twice in four words, but at least we’re out of
...more
When I tell you I cackled when reading this and forced Luke and my brother in laws to listen to me read it 5 times.
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.
There have been times when for me the act of writing has been a little act of faith, a spit in the eye of despair.
