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20 Quotes From Stephen King That Will Inspire, Empower, And Terrify You

Words from the master of horror to inspire and terrify you.
M.J. Pack
August 12, 2016
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: creepy, monsters, Ghosts, Supernatural, Evil, spooky
“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft
Tagged: creepy, spooky, Writing, Painting, Art, Inspirational, Inspiring
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
— Stephen King, It
Tagged: creepy, spooky, fiction, Truth, Lie
“I work until beer o'clock.”
— Stephen King, Time (6 October 1986)
Tagged: creepy, Work, Beer, Drinking, Writing
“I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way and tuned to no station at all.”
— Stephen King, The Bachman Books: Rage / The Long Walk / Roadwork / The Running Man
Tagged: creepy, static, Mental Illness, Rage
“Any big hotels have got scandals. Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: creepy, hotels, Ghosts, haunting, Haunted
“There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
Tagged: creepy, Suicide, Killing Yourself, spooky
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft
Tagged: creepy, Writing, Reading, writer, Writers, Authors, Readers, Books
“A short story is a different thing all together – a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
— Stephen King, Skeleton Crew
Tagged: creepy, Stories, Story, short stories, short story, writer, Writing
“I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better after all.”
— Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies
Tagged: creepy, asylum, asylums, Mental Illness
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
— Stephen King, Needful Things
Tagged: creepy, horrors, Horror, coping
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
— Stephen King, The Last Gunslinger
Tagged: creepy, enemies, Lovers, Lie, lying, Truth
“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”
— Stephen King, Desperation
Tagged: creepy, cruel, Cruelty, God, live, Life, Living
“The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”
— Stephen King, Needful Things
Tagged: creepy, devil, satan, sweet, voice
“Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.”
— Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne
Tagged: creepy, Bitch, Woman, Women, surviving, Survival
“FEAR stands for ‘fuck everything and run.'”
— Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
Tagged: creepy, Fear, being afraid, fright, Horror, scary
“This is how we go on: one day a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time.”
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Tagged: creepy, Pain, Life, live, Living
“Sometimes, dead is better.”
— Stephen King, Pet Sematary
Tagged: creepy, Horror, scary, dead, Death
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft
Tagged: creepy, Writing, writer, Editing, edit
“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
— Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)
Tagged: creepy, dark, Darkness, bright, Day, daylight