“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
“She looked at the kids, who did not see [them] because they were past the age of twenty-five...” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned;” — 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
“...and of course if Andrew Keene had been on the downhill side of the Standpipe, he would have exited the world in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the end, daughter of pandora that I am, my curiosity got the best of me. I wish it hadn't.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I knew I was going to be able to write full time, I wondered, "What's going to happen to the relationships… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Faith and power, he had come to believe, were interchangeable. Was the final truth even simpler? That no act of faith was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality… — 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 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
“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don’t we?” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Baby Jesus, meek and mild, pray for me, an orphan child. Be my strength, be my friend, be with me until the… — 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
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
