“There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.” — 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but decayed memories, and that… — 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
“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
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
“norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them, the way he had puked on homer gamache that time he… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Those aren't doors, and they're not opening. Those are crypts, Richie. They're cracking open and the vampires you thought were dead are… — 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
When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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
This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even… — 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
