Book Quote by Mary Garden

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.

— Jim Rash

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

— William H. Macy

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.

— Nelson DeMille

Writing the book was quite therapeutic at times. It's emotional, it's up and down.

— Paul Mullin

I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In…

— Lev Grossman

I'm a Stephen King fanatic.

— Mike Flanagan

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright

“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to reading three…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I…

— Elif Batuman

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske