Reading Stephen King Quotes

#1. Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

Mary Garden

#2. I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

Nnedi Okorafor

#3. I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

Dean Koontz

#4. When reading Stephen King, don't get too close to the kids or the dogs. It will only break your heart.

Brendan P. Myers

#5. Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

Stephen King

#6. Reading is the creative center of a writer's life. -

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#7. You know what, kid? It's guys like you who give reading a bad name.

Stephen King

#8. One either absorbs the grammatical principles of one's native language in conversation and in reading or one does not. What Sophomore English does (or tries to do) is little more than the naming of parts.

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#9. I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.

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#10. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Stephen King

#11. Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

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#12. 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 about something.

Stephen King

#13. I felt a little like a man reading a very grim book.

Stephen King

#14. There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.

Stephen King

#15. Stephen King is not a guy who keeps secrets the same goes and for Jeffery Deaver. But Jeffery Deaver creates characters and plays with them, Stephen King knows with who is playing, Jeffery Deaver just goes as how will happen, I think that and he doesn't know where the story lines will go.

Deyth Banger

#16. I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Stephen King

#17. Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a fucking standing O, and in their faces he saw what every poet or would-be poet hopes to see when he or she finished reading: the faces of people suddenly awakened from a dream brighter than any reality.

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#18. He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

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#19. Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

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#20. Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

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#21. Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.

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#22. Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

Nathan Fillion

#23. If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Stephen King

#24. ...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...

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#25. Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story ... to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

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#26. My advice about reading is to do a lot of it.

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#27. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

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#28. I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

Alexander Koch

#29. Easy reading is the product of hard writing,

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#30. Ghostly, in his mind, Ben heard the librarian reading to the little ones: Who is that trip-trapping upon my bridge? The children lean forward, all the old fascination glistening in their eyes: will the monster be bested ... or will It feed?

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#31. Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

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#32. Only through fiction can we think about the unthinkable...

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#33. If you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you're done.

Stephen King

#34. That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the least opportune moments.

Stephen King

#35. Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

Anne Rice

#36. ...there will always be books. ... Books are real objects. Books are friends. ... They're also ideas and emotions.

Stephen King

#37. The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.

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#38. Good books are for consideration after, too.

Stephen King

#39. You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

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#40. The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order.

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#41. His chief interest was in reading fiction, then trying to analyze what he had read, fitting it into a larger pattern.

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#42. 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 the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

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#43. You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

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#44. I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.

Harold Bloom

#45. Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading ... the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the failures of American education.

Harold Bloom

#46. Never leave a book facedown and open when he paused in his reading - because, he said, it broke the spines.

Stephen King

#47. When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

Stephen King

#48. You reading this have undoubtedly met yours (or will); I met mine, and I'm sure he'll be back. He's got my address. He's a mean guy, a Bad Lieutenant, the sworn enemy of goofery, fuckery, pride, ambition, loud music, and all things nineteen. But

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