## Metadata - Author: [[Stephen King]] - Full Title: On Writing - Category: #books ## Highlights - After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors. ([Location 128](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC0SIM&location=128)) - “When we’re talking I always want to cup my hands under Mrs. Taylor’s peepers in case they fall out,” my mom said. ([Location 239](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC0SIM&location=239)) - Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up. ([Location 334](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC0SIM&location=334)) - “When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.” ([Location 588](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC0SIM&location=588))