Book Quotes by Stephen King

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

— Stephen King

You have to go where the book leads you.

— Stephen King

Good books are for consideration after, too.

— Stephen King

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

— Stephen King

“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.”

— Stephen King

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right…

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the…

— Stephen King

“Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the…

— Stephen King

Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" [sic] or something…

— Stephen King

I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a…

— Stephen King

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been…

— Stephen King

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own…

— 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

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order…

— Stephen King

Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's…

— Stephen King

There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of…

— Stephen King

There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well…

— Stephen King

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know…

— Stephen King

The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to…

— Stephen King

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the…

— Stephen King

It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab 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

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than…

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.”

— Stephen King

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife;…

— Stephen King

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own…

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

— Stephen King

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think…

— Stephen King

I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of…

— Stephen King