477 Quotes About Books-and-reading

Stephen King fans are the enlightened ones. Their opinion of your work could never be bad. Mr. King has shown them, in so many ways what to look for. Good or bad, accept their counsel and build on it. It's not about you. It's about the story.

Like all collectors, I exist in a perpetual state of want that bears no reasonable relationship to the quantity of unread books mounting up on my shelves.

It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life.

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Because of the Olympics, we decided the books had to have something to do with competition, teamwork and sportsmanship.

I didn't want to make the book as it was, I wanted to make the book as I remembered it.

The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally agreed to meet them they said they wanted to be really faithful, too.

We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in 2006,