Stephen King

Stephen King: What is Writing Response	Quotation
This made me see writing in a whole new way. I never thought of it as a way to communicate. What the author is writing is something that the reader will be reading as well and processing in a whole new and different way than the author might have ever imagined, yet at the same time, there is a message being sent and received.	“I never opened my mouth and you never opened yours. We’re not even in the same year together, let alone the same room… except we are together. We’re close.” (307)
Writing is not an easy thing to do. You can tackle it in any way that you see fit. Depending on what I am writing, my mood will change, which is both expected and obvious.	“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair – the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart.” (307)
I like the way he puts this part. It makes it real. It makes writing look less like a task but more of an importance.	“This isn’t a popularity contest, it’s not the moral Olympics, and it’s not church. But it’s writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can’t or won’t, it’s time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car maybe.” (307)
Every art does work by trying to send a message to the viewer, that’s the whole point. Without that message, there would be no expression, nothing to strive for in art.	“All the arts depend upon telepathy to some degree, but I believe that writing offers the purest distillation.” (305)