“There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.” — 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
The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the end, though, it's all about giving back the teeth that the current 'sweetie-vamp' craze has, by and large, stolen from… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Here is the final truth of horror movies: They do not love death, as some have suggested; they love life. They do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men… — 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
Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the… — 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… — 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,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Bill nodded, but he didn’t look hopeful. “The H-H-Himalayans had a rih-hi-hitual to g-get rih-rid of i-i-it, but ih-it’s pretty gruh-gruh-gruesome.” They… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Is it because I'm a girl?" Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head. She looked at him for a moment, her lips trembling, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don’t we… — 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
There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well… — 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
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