Quote

Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment that things are in the unmaking.

Stephen King

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
Actor
Author
Columnist
Director
Film Director
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Teacher
Television Producer
Writer
Portland
Maine
Stephen Edwin King
Richard Bachman
John Swithen
Things
Pervasive
Arises
Arise
Terror
Often
Sense

More quotes by Stephen King

Image
Mornings belong to whatever is new the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.
Stephen King
Image
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
Stephen King
Image
The mystery of the universe is not time but size.
Stephen King
Image
Bad chances were better than no chances.
Stephen King
Image
The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.
Stephen King
Image
I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.
Stephen King
Image
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
Stephen King
Image
I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.
Stephen King
Image
Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.
Stephen King
Image
I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.
Stephen King
Image
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.
Stephen King
Image
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft I read because I like to read
Stephen King
Image
I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.
Stephen King
Image
Pain is the biggest power of love.
Stephen King
Image
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Stephen King
Image
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much
Stephen King
Image
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.
Stephen King
Image
He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.
Stephen King
Image
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
Stephen King
Image
Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King