Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file… — 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
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing…… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best.He was my model as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding… — 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
My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know… — 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
The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For… — 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
Showrunning is a thing where you have to work with tons of different people. You have to schmooze people, you have to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just… — 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
I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It… — 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
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer… — 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
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
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
