Books Quote by Stephen King

“I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and…

— Dorothy Allison

“But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a piece of…

— Stephen King

“I loved the escape of writing those stories, of imagining lives that were different from my own. I had a ferocious imagination. I was…

— Roxane Gay

“I felt as though the past and the future, cause and effect, patterns and connections, were a huge complicated artifice, and it was only…

— Ann Brashares

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their…

— Christian Tetzlaff

“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were.…

— Wendell Berry

“When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.”

— Christy Hall

“What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to…

— Tim O'Brien

“It felt as if everything that had happened so far in my life had been leading me to this point, preparing me for this…

— Roz Savage

“My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous…

— John Scalzi

“...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try…

— Alison Lurie