Stephen King Book Quotes

#1. I once read a Stephen King book that used the term SSDD. Same shit, different day.

Kristin Hannah

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

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#3. For readers, one of life's more electrifying discoveries is that they ARE readers--not just capable of doing it...but in love with it...The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts...

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#4. I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and you'll be happy.' I'm happy now, and that has had an effect on my life and my relationship with my wife and kids and even my friends. I've always wanted to be a writer.

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#5. Stephen King and Clive Barker can make amazing works, such people's book should be on your list.

Deyth Banger

#6. If a book remained roadblocked long enough, it began to decay, to fall apart; all the little tricks and illusions started to show. He

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#7. I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses ... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

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#8. I'd read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world's strangest trip, and as I climbed into bed, a line from the novel crossed my mind: 'He had lost the habit of romance.

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#9. The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

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#10. If you drop a book into the toilet, you can fish it out, dry it off and read that book. But if you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you're pretty well done.

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#11. It could be a work of fiction, or history, or both - a long book exploding out of this central place in a hundred directions.

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#12. Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. I own every book Stephen King has ever written."
"That's great. That's something to be proud of."
But did you read them, fuckface?

Caroline Kepnes

#16. 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 book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

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#17. The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.

Victor LaValle

#18. Finest kind of dope. Book-Valium. No more heebie-jeebies. No more whim-whams

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#19. I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

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#20. One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection.

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#21. Stephen King's 'On Writing' is probably the most useful writing book I've ever read.

Jason Henderson

#22. Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself.

Debra Dean

#23. 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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#24. When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.

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#25. When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

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#26. 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 is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

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#27. People who shine can sometimes see things that are gonna happen, and I think sometimes they can see things that did happen. But they're just like pictures in a book.

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#28. Go where ye list,' as the Good Book says. But go there alive, Trisha. Don't be no ghost. If you turn into one of those, it might be better if you stayed away.

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#29. Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A John Grisham Novel.

Dave Barry

#30. Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Dana Stabenow

#31. I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

Bridget Carpenter

#32. Fear not, daughter Zion," Stephen whispered. "See, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt ... " He spun to me, eyes flashing. "This is written of the Anointed One, in the book of Zechariah. You see, it is him! He orchestrates this with intention!

Ted Dekker

#33. So turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favorite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them, because while I was working on this book, I believed in them myself.

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#34. From the Book of Republicans: "Lo, we have many assholes running for President. Let us consider, and pick the biggest. And so it was done.

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#35. Hmm,' said the King. 'I must write that down in my book of aphorisms. I don't know if it is deep, but it sounds deep.

Stephen Mitchell

#36. I just bought two balls which remind me for the Dr.House ball. The ball which he used to play, however I bought one book by Stephen King translated on Bulgarian language it's called Finder Keepers!

Deyth Banger

#37. Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls.

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#38. The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.

Ben E. King

#39. My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

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#40. Why the book 11.29.69 was written? (Very good question) - it was written because Stephen King was inspired about what will happen if it can be changed???

Deyth Banger

#41. Still, I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

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#42. Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish. I read his book 'On Writing' before I read pretty much any of his fiction.

Michael Koryta

#43. As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears.

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#44. If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.

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#45. The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

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#46. The book told unpleasant truths, and anyone who doesn't feel a qualm of regret at throwing a blanket over the truth is an asshole with no conscience.

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#47. JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

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#48. Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!

Deyth Banger

#49. I didn't want to write a book, even a short one like this, that would leave me feeling like either a literary gasbag or a transcendental asshole.

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#50. Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

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#51. This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

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#52. 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 book - something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

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#53. The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

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#54. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in.

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#55. The screen blanked, then produced a book cover. The jacket image - in black-and-white - showed barking dogs surrounding a scarecrow. In the background, shoulders slumped in a posture of weariness or defeat (or both), was a hunter with a gun. The eponymous Cortland, probably.

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#56. Tell you what, why don't you think of whoever wrote your first good book? I'm talking about the one that got under you like a magic carpet and lifted you right off the ground. Do you know what I'm talking about? They know. It's on every face that faces his.

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

Mary Garden

#58. 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.

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#59. You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He's fantastic.

Timothy Olyphant

#60. If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't ... well, I'm in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don't have time to waste with the poorly written ones.

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#61. Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

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#62. (A point of view of a stupidy of mankind)...
Hey... did you check out the book by Stephen King in 7 June published??
... (I was talking to one friend if I can put him as a friend...)
The teacher says "Stop with this books.."... pff I said once not twice, why to stop?

Deyth Banger

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

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

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#65. 1408 Film by Stephen King freak me out, the story also freak me out. But watching the film how is made, how much reverses were shown just terrified me. The ending was suprising!

Deyth Banger

#66. The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.

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#67. He felt as he always did when he finished a book - queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.

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#68. 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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#69. In this book," he said, "Mr. Simak postulates the idea that there are a number of worlds like ours. Not other planets but other Earths, parallel Earths, in a kind of ring around the sun.

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#70. I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

Frederick Lenz

#71. He was like something out of a fairytale or a myth, the last of his breed in a world that was writing the last page of its book.

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#72. Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" or something like that. It's pretty much accepted that Americans should be interested in who they're diddling and how they're doing it.

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#73. In a book, all would have gone according to plan ... but life was so fucking untidy - what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took place when you needed to take a shit, or something? An existence where there weren't even any chapters?

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