“the heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance… — 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
The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?" Yes." My Imagination." I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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
It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You… — 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
“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — 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
“I hate the assumption that you can’t write about something because you haven’t experienced it, and not just because it assumes a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“it occurred to him that kids were better at almost dying, and they were also better at incorporating the inexplicable into their… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If… — 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
