“When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There is nothing of God or Light in that heartless sound - it is all black winter and dark ice.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love… — 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
Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...but maybe it wasn't the sort of thing you could have gotten up and testified about at a city council meeting--how you… — 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
“His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's… — 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
In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of… — 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
For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the dark, all cats are gray . . . and to the blind, they’re no color at all.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone… — 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
