Stephen King: write less.
Neal Stephenson: write less.

You two should try working on haikus.
But don't listen to me...you're both millionaires.

I say this because Wizard and Glass and Cryptonomicon were ruined, I feel, by verbosity. Nice stuff, poor execution. I love Neal Stephenson, but I don't love the big C. It's cute...in some hard-to-define way. I didn't enjoy that.

And Stephen King can write 50-100 pages about drinking a glass of water, can't he? He makes love stories the way 3DO makes game machines.