Stephen King Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Shining, Fiction

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.282, Anchor

• I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Writing, Literature

  Stephen King (1989). “The Stephen King companion”

• The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

  Stephen King

  Fiction, Literature, Ephemeral

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

• These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.

  Stephen King

  Country, Hate, Heart

• I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

  Stephen King

  Gun, Rocks, Doors

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

• I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, Blood

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

• I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Fiction, Literature

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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