Stephen King Quotes

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

As a fan of reading - I've always loved reading - I just love reading books that take me away for a little while and let me disappear. And that's why I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up.

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

I absolutely love reading.

I don't like anything too heavy. Something I can read, you know, lying in bed that takes me to different world.

I get transported when I read books.

Everybody in the world has problems, and the nice thing about entertainment is you get to forget about those problems and have a good time for a couple of hours.