“You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share
“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.… — Stephen King Copy Share
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share
“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.… — Stephen King Copy Share
“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened… — Stephen King Copy Share
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share
Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and… — Stephen King Copy Share
“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to… — Stephen King Copy Share
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.” — Stephen King Copy Share
