The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's… — 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
