If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The silence was a comfortable one, as if they had known each other for a long time. This was a feeling about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There was a lot of purple on the covers. Purple sold scary books better than any other color, Mike had been told.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
