“None of this was real, after all. It was just a refuge in her mind.” — 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
“Resurrection... ah, there's a word (that you should put right the fuck out of your mind and you know it).” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing with which the human mind could not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“At Hartford or New Haven or one of those other places where no one in their right fucking mind would want to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Some memories battened onto a person's mind like evil leeches, and certain words could bring them instantly back to squirming, feverish life.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I decided to start with Cincinnati, only because Cincinnati was the first city to come into my mind. It could as easily… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“To Nick's mind, a corpse was just a thing, no different than a chair or typewriter or a rug. A corpse was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Description begins with visualization of what it is you want the reader to experience. It ends with you translating what you see… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn’t the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Here is something I learned in 1922: there are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You, my dear ... have been wondering why she stuck with him. Although you haven't said as much, it's been on your… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He has promised himself that he’ll try not to stuff his Dark Tower fantasies with unpronounceable words in some made-up (not to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it… — 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
“Bad or good, movies nearly always have a strange diminishing effect on works of fantasy (of course there are exceptions; The Wizard… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary,… — 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
“Why do you choose to write about such gruesome subjects? I usually answer this with another question: Why do you assume that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And the purple parted before it, snapping back like skin after a slash, and what it let out wasn't blood but light:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I guess all religions are weird,’ Eddie said now. But powerful, his mind added, almost magical …” — 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
