Stephen King Literary Quotes

#1. 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.

Stephen King

#2. I may not hate al of the people all the time, but I hate all of them some of the time, and I hate some of them all of the time.

Kathy McCullough

#3. I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations.

Stephen King

#4. I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Stephen King

#5. As for the many followers of the Koran being slaughtered daily by Islamic terrorists, the world will have to wait until Barack Obama is out of office before America's might will be used to save these Muslims.

Bob Enyart

#6. Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.

Stephen King

#7. This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#8. I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.

Adam Christopher

#9. He was such a bastard. Maybe he should have Remy shoot him again, just for good measure.

Abigail Roux

#10. In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

Stephen King

#11. You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward.

Bryant McGill

#12. You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.

Philip Seymour Hoffman