Books Quotes by Stephen King

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

— Stephen King

“I felt a little like a man reading a very grim book.”

— Stephen King

“My advice about reading is to do a lot of it.”

— Stephen King

“Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.”

— Stephen King

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

— Stephen King

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

— Stephen King

“Finest kind of dope. Book-Valium.”

— Stephen King

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

— Stephen King

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in…

— Stephen King

“Books have a smell, for instance. One that gets better—more nostalgic—as the years go by. Does this gadget of yours have a…

— Stephen King

“There was a lot of purple on the covers. Purple sold scary books better than any other color, Mike had been told.”

— Stephen King

“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts.”

— Stephen King

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

— Stephen King

“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.”

— Stephen King

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't…

— Stephen King

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen.…

— Stephen King

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good,…

— Stephen King

Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can…

— Stephen King

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as…

— Stephen King

The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come…

— Stephen King

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why…

— Stephen King

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… Writing is seduction. Good…

— Stephen King

“Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part…

— Stephen King

How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or…

— Stephen King

“And, you know, I hope you have some fun with this book. Nosh and nibble at the corners or read the mother…

— Stephen King

I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that…

— Stephen King

“But none of them taught me the things I learned from Carrie White. The most important is that the writer’s original perception…

— Stephen King

“The resulting scrambling to get the next big shiver and shake novel produced some really terrible books. As a further result, the…

— Stephen King

“I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of…

— Stephen King

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped…

— Stephen King

“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and…

— Stephen King

“Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt…

— Stephen King

“If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear.…

— Stephen King

“Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality…

— Stephen King

“Susannah: (sotto voce) Everybody's a goddam critic. Jake: Blaine, I have one more. Blaine: EXCELLENT. Jake: Out of the eater came forth…

— Stephen King

“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control; About who is snapping the…

— Stephen King

“Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the…

— Stephen King

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,…

— Stephen King