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
There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life,… — 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
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
It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to… — 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
They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best.He was my model as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Showrunning is a thing where you have to work with tons of different people. You have to schmooze people, you have to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
