The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won’t ever make em muffins.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has… — 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