Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
Stephen KingRead
If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Stephen King suggests that writers should experiment boldly and embrace risks in their creative process.
This quote by Stephen King emphasizes the importance of experimentation in writing. By using the metaphor of manipulating a television's electric plug, he encourages new writers to take daring steps that could lead to enlightening or unexpected outcomes, reflecting the unpredictable nature of creativity. It suggests that pushing boundaries and being adventurous can lead to greater insights in one's writing journey.
Themes
WritingCreativityExperimentationRiskInspiration
In practice
Example use cases
A writing workshop facilitator might use this quote to motivate participants to take creative risks.
More from Stephen King
All quotes →Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Stephen KingRead
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Stephen KingRead
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Stephen KingRead
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.
Stephen KingRead
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
Stephen KingRead
Similar quotes
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauRead
You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Christopher HitchensRead
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David HilbertRead
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
Horace MannRead
In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.
Susan CainRead
People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.
Bob DylanRead