King divides writers into four categories: bad, competent, good, and great.
In his nonfictional essay <em>On Writing, </em>he writes about the authors and their craft. He makes a division of writers:
1. bad writers - most of them, according to King
2. competent writers - whose books you might find selling next to newspapers
3. really good writers - a very small group of writers
4. geniuses - writers such as Shakespeare, Faulkner, Yeats, Shaw, etc.