I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The most enthusiastic tellers of these tales, he came to realize, were men who wouldn’t be dragged into the Falcon with a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“until the next time, when, in the grip of the nightmare, all fears will be remembered.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Before marrying Vic, she had been a librarian in the Westchester school system, and her own private nightmare had always been telling… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it. ‘You” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — 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 basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Playboy: Are you afraid of the dark? King: Of course. Isn’t everybody? Actually, I can’t understand my own family sometimes. I won’t… — 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
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
