“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.” — 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
“UR LOCAL's under construction. Better watch out, traffic fines double.” — 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'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
“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
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 most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are. — 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 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
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
Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about… — 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 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
As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say… — 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
“You haven’t finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You’re afraid of finding you can’t finish. You’re afraid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the modern world all terrors could be gutted by simple use of the transitive axiom of quality. Some fears were justified,… — 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
“adults had their own terrors, and their glands could be tapped, opened so that all the chemicals of fear flooded the body… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is a relationship between humor and fear. Think of all the gags you ever heard that have to do with dismemberment,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The plan was pretty much based on that bit of New Age wisdom which says the word "fear" stands for Face Everything… — 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
I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives. — 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
“Your lies don't anger me," Roland said, "but the fear which brings them forth does. Shut thy mouth.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the… — 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
“Andy was the part of me they could never lock up, the part of me that will rejoice when the gates finally… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give… — 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
