“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Certainly we have all been taught since earliest childhood that what the monster does when it catches you in the deep wood… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control; About who is snapping the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the opinion of this researcher, a great many of the people who have researched the Carrie White matter - either for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And when It woke It would call them back, yes, back, because fear was fertile, its child was rage, and rage cried… — 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
“you could only protect your child through watchfulness and love, that you must tend a child as you tended a garden, fertilizing,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart… — 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
“You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever, live with them forever,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I’m an old man trying to give a young daughter advice, and it’s like a monkey trying to teach table manners to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — 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 probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“¿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 Image
