# Quote — Stephen King, On Writing

> This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less the bullshit.

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [On Writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/on-writing.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/On_Writing#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/on-writing/this-is-a-short

## More from this book

> We're not even in the same year together, let alone the same room....except we are together. We're close.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/on-writing/were-not-even.md)

> My mother knew I wanted to be a writer (with all those rejection slips hanging from the spike on my bedroom wall, how could she not?), but she encouraged me to get a teacher’s credential “so you’ll have something to fall back on.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/on-writing/my-mother-knew.md)

> ...reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/on-writing/reading-in-bed.md)