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Book Quotes by Stephen King
- Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth…
- 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…
- The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.
- 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.
- JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever
- Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.
- The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
- I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't…
- Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
- Without story books is like a person with no soul.
- 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…
- Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book…
- I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a…
- 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…
- Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
- 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…
- Books are a uniquely portable magic.
- Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but…
- A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work…
- Good books are for consideration after, too.
- Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
- How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his…
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