This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but decayed memories, and that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them, the way he had puked on homer gamache that time he… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Here is the final truth of horror movies: They do not love death, as some have suggested; they love life. They do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Di a tus amigos que soy el último de una raza agonizante. Único superviviente de un planeta moribundo. He venido a robar… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Bill nodded, but he didn’t look hopeful. “The H-H-Himalayans had a rih-hi-hitual to g-get rih-rid of i-i-it, but ih-it’s pretty gruh-gruh-gruesome.” They… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Is it because I'm a girl?" Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head. She looked at him for a moment, her lips trembling, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing, the one that coalesces all your nightmares… — 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
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“October 6, 2017 “Here I sit next to the telephone. I put my free hand on it . . . let it slide down . . . touch… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate.… — 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 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and 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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