We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no… — 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
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you were a real fascistic society and you had a vocal minority that was shouting, "Stop this, stop that, stop the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things… — 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
Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic… — 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
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
“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
“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
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“¿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
“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
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
“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
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