Stephen King

If someone had asked him, __en, are you lonely? , _ he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to him. He had no friends, but he had his books and his dreams...

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I__l chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming __here are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?

Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

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.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

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.

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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

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

If you don__ have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

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.

And people who don__ dream, who don__ have any kind of imaginative life, they must_ they must go nuts. I can__ imagine that.

Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board.

To write is human, to edit is divine.