“She looked at the kids, who did not see [them] because they were past the age of twenty-five...” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don’t we?” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“you could only protect your child through watchfulness and love, that you must tend a child as you tended a garden, fertilizing,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one–probably a child–who will imagine… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“That stays, the bright cameo of all we were and all we believed as children, all that shone in our eyes even… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I knew I was going to be able to write full time, I wondered, "What's going to happen to the relationships… — 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
There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the opinion of this researcher, a great many of the people who have researched the Carrie White matter - either for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Certainly we have all been taught since earliest childhood that what the monster does when it catches you in the deep wood… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to… — 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
“Now that he was dead, Paul could look at him. The cop looked like a big doll that has been badly treated… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single… — 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
“You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever, live with them forever,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...and of course if Andrew Keene had been on the downhill side of the Standpipe, he would have exited the world in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Cal thought: A new player. Terrific. Maybe William Shatner’s in here, too. Also Mike Huckabee . . . Kim Kardashian . . . the guy who plays Opie… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And when It woke It would call them back, yes, back, because fear was fertile, its child was rage, and rage cried… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the… — 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
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