“One of Stephen King’s best miniseries, Rose Red, is finally here just in time for spooky season.”— Brandy Eaklor, creepycatalog.com
“My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. That's a head reaction. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind. It is the sort of effect that Edgar Allen Poe gets in his story, The Tel…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very definition, short. It is something that generally you can turn out in a week to two weeks depending on how well it goes for you. But, at the same time, it gives the same satisfaction of…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it. I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“I was still in college when Night Of The Living Dead came out, and when I went to see it the first time, I went in the afternoon. The place was full of kids, mostly from five to eleven. I have never in my life, from the time I was a kid until now, been in an audience where children were so quiet. Th…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable -- the idea that we simply die and nothing happens. Now, as to what does go on, that is something else. I am religio…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“I am interested in it and I think now in the latter half of the twentieth century we have enough documentation so that anyone that doubts the psychic experience is an actual empiric reality is on the level with a person who continues to smoke two or three packs of cigarettes a day and denies that th…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“I would NOT participate in one under any circumstances. Not even if my wife died and a medium said she had a message from my wife. I cannot conceive of circumstances under which I would participate in that sort of thing or stay overnight in a house that was reputed to be haunted or any of those thin…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblin…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“JK Rowling has deleted a tweet expressing her love of fellow author Stephen King, after he confirmed that he supports trans women.”— Ellie Harrison, independent.co.uk
“The key is that his horror stories aren’t scary without reason, but that they’re 'grounded in humanity. . . . You can take every monster that he creates and make it into sort of an avatar for whatever neuroses or anxieties people have in the world.'”— Travis M. Andrews , Washington Post, washingtonpost.com
“Years following the events of 'The Shining', a now-adult Dan Torrence meets a young girl with similar powers as his and tries to protect her from a cult known as The True Knot who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.”— Movieclips Trailers, youtube.com
“Stephen King is a far, far better writer at thirty than I was at thirty, or at forty. I am entitled to hate him a little bit for this.”— John D. Macdonald, amazon.com
“I’ve always had trouble with the notion of ‘respectable’ work. I understand the human need to categorize, but I love the reality that he’s in his own stratosphere.”— Caroline Kepnes, ew.com
“I think that book has helped so many of us stick to our guns and keep at it. That’s a book that was so empowering. He was so eloquent and incisive in that book. Here he is, larger-than-life Stephen King, and yet there he is across from you, telling you to chill out and work.”— Caroline Kepnes, ew.com
“The characters felt real, the world felt like our own, and there was no safety net — you weren’t safe in the daylight, your family could turn on you, and children weren’t safe from the monster. In fact, sometimes they were its favorite food.”— Mike Flanagan, ew.com
“My jaw hit the floor at the realization that stories like The Shining or The Dead Zone or those from Night Shift could actually exist. Characters from and of our world faced with horrors and challenges from somewhere else.”— J.J. Abrams, ew.com