All STEPHEN KING Quotes about “Books”

“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.”
“JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
“There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When youâ€™re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”
“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
“People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.”
“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.”
“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”
“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
“Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.”
“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.”
“Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, donâ€™t understand very much about what they doâ€”not why it works when itâ€™s good, not why it doesnâ€™t when itâ€™s bad.”
“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.”
“The first draft of a bookâ€”even a long oneâ€”should take no more than three months, the length of a season.”
“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”
“It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.”
“Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.”
“But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.”
“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.”
“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. Thatâ€™s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book â€” something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”

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