Stephen King Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

  Stephen King

  Book, Perfect, Batteries

• JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

  Stephen King

  Book, Forever, Soul

• Books are a uniquely portable magic.

  Stephen King

  Education, Kings, Book

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

• Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Book

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

• There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Play

  Stephen King (2017). “Hearts in Atlantis”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Book, Writing

  "Beyond cuts: the many roles of a writer's editor" by Nell Frizzell, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2014.

• Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

  Stephen King

  Book, Gun, Cold

• People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

• If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

  Stephen King

  Book, Long, Library

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

• I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

  Stephen King

  Book, Order, Years

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

• You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

  Stephen King

  Book, Judging, Want

  Stephen King (2008). “Night Shift”, p.162, Anchor

• Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

  Stephen King

  Book

• Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.

  Stephen King

  Book, Home, Doors

  Stephen King (1993). “The Waste Lands”, Signet Book

• This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Bullshit

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Bullshit

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

  Stephen King

  Book, Apples, Orange

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

  Stephen King

  Loyalty, Running, Art

• The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

  Stephen King

  Book, Long, Three

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

• Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

  Stephen King

  Art, Book, Writing

  "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft". On Living: A Postscript, 7. Book by Stephen King, 2000.

• Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

  Stephen King

  Book, Together, Good Book

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

• Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Opportunity

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

• It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Book, Library

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Book, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

• Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Waiting Rooms

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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