“But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In a brief court proceeding in 1966 the boy’s mother had her son declared legally dead so she could enter into possession… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness... — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There’s three things ye can do in any situation, girl,” her father had told her once. “Ye can decide to do a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You think Mother sent us out here to have visions?' Ralph asked. 'Maybe to gain strength and holiness by a purging process',Glen… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“To this point in his life, Jake had been aware of only three feelings about his father: puzzlement, fear, and a species… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“No Fuimus, non Sumus, atque nonquam obliti erimus." "I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“These were his friends, and his mother was wrong: they weren’t bad friends. Maybe, he thought, there aren’t any such things as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Pam's father had been diagnosed with rectal cancer. It didn't surprise me. Put a bunch of white assholes together and you're going… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Frannie had an idea that her father might have faced a choice many years ago: continued opposition resulting in divorce, or surrender.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What would his father do then? Go on, Johnny supposed. People had a way of doing that, just going on, pushing through… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.” — 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