{"id":43175,"date":"2025-07-10T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43175"},"modified":"2025-07-09T21:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:37:43","slug":"a-writing-quote-of-excellence-from-stephen-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/07\/10\/a-writing-quote-of-excellence-from-stephen-king\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote of Excellence from Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Description begins in the writer&#8217;s imagination but should finish in the reader&#8217;s.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Stephen King<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43176 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/On-Writing_Stephen-King.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/On-Writing_Stephen-King.jpg 128w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/On-Writing_Stephen-King-98x150.jpg 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If this quote were part of a diptych, I think it&#8217;s &#8220;partner&#8221; quote would be AS Byatt&#8217;s, from the novel, <em>Possession<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThink of this \u2013 that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34301\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Possession_AS-Byatt-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Possession_AS-Byatt-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Possession_AS-Byatt-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Possession_AS-Byatt.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description begins in the writer&#8217;s imagination but should finish in the reader&#8217;s. Stephen King If this quote were part of a diptych, I think it&#8217;s &#8220;partner&#8221; quote would be AS Byatt&#8217;s, from the novel, Possession: \u201cThink of this \u2013 that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43177,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43175\/revisions\/43177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}