Books Quote by Stephen King

“I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

“But life- I'd come to find out- was pretty damn large. It coiled and wove and spun its own story, threading together tales to…

— Megan Squires

“Without the personal traumas, tribulations and ‘terribles’ that I have experienced throughout life, I wouldn’t have gained the information necessary to write this book…

— Emma James

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were…

— Frank Conroy

“To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look…

— Dai Sijie

“I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go…

— Paul Auster

“Everything good or bad in my life had started and ended within the limits of that town. It was over now, though, and a…

— Rose Wynters

“It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What…

— Isabel Lopez

“A book is like life, there are only so many chapters.”

— Liza D. Osae-Kwapong

“Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never…

— Anonymous

“I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was…

— Henry Miller

“Somewhere along the way, I stopped living in the real world. I expected life to be like my books. I expected happily ever after…

— Nick Pageant