Monsters Stephen King Quotes

No, of course you don't think that is possible. You look at my face and you see a monster. You look at my hands and see them covered with the blood you ordered me to spill. But I tell you, Cap, it will happen. The girl has had no friend for going on two years. She has had her father and that is all. You see her as you see me, Cap. It is your great failing. You look, you see a monster. Only in the girl's case, you see a useful monster. Perhaps that is because you are a white man. White men see monsters everywhere. White men look at their own pricks and see monsters. ~ Stephen King

Horror is when you know and love the characters, but you also know something very bad is going to happen to them. It's not the monsters! ~ Stephen King

I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. ~ Stephen King

Death is when the monsters get you. ~ Stephen King

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you. ~ Stephen King

He summoned all his willpower and reined it in, promising himself he would drink just as much as he goddam wanted once he had his forty in - a pretty amazing number, when fifty percent of city cops retired after twenty-five and seventy percent after thirty. Only now that he has his forty, alcohol no longer interests him much. He forced himself to get drunk a few times, just to see if he could still do it, and he could, but being drunk turned out to be no better than being sober. Actually it was a little worse. ~ Stephen King

Those in the grip of a strong drug - heroin, devil grass, true love - often find themselves trying to maintain a precarious balance between secrecy and ecstasy as they walk the tightrope of their lives. Keeping one's balance on a tightrope is difficult under the soberest of circumstances; doing so while in a state of delirium is all but impossible. ~ Stephen King

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ~ Stephen King

the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed. The ~ Stephen King

Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age. ~ Stephen King

There can be a big difference between what you think is great and what you actually like. ~ Stephen King

When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all into the wastebasket and goes to Florida for a little while. There is a sudden electric what-the-hell glow as you stand there looking back over your shoulder at the bridge you just burnt down. ~ Richard Bachman

Many lions is a pride; many crows is a murder; many bumbles is a throcket; many dragons is a bonfire. ~ Stephen King

His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time. ~ Stephen King

By 11:00 A.M. I needed coffee desperately. A gallon or so seemed about right. ~ Stephen King

She looked from her son to Bill and back to her son again, touched by wonder that was mostly simple perplexity but partly a fear so thin and sharp that it found its way deep into her inner heart and vibrated there like a tuning-fork made of clear ice. ~ Stephen King

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. ~ Stephen King

of elective office), the yearly term was voted in. ~ Stephen King

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal. ~ Stephen King

Lovin' you baby, is just like rollin' off a log, But if I can't be your woman, I sure ain't goin' to be your dog. ~ Stephen King

Genius is a vastly overrated commodity. ~ Stephen King

There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you. ~ Stephen Fry

We'll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we'll drink your screams ~ Stephen King

Stephen King fans are the enlightened ones. Their opinion of your work could never be bad. Mr. King has shown them, in so many ways what to look for. Good or bad, accept their counsel and build on it. It's not about you. It's about the story. ~ A.K. Kuykendall

I started after him ... and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was."
"Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly.
"It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town. ~ Stephen King

Greed in a good cause is still greed. ~ Stephen King

Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York. ~ Stephen King

Maybe he was as mad as he said he was, but she could see only a species of miserable fright. Suddenly, like the thud of a boxing glove on her mouth, she saw how close to the edge of everything he was. The agency was tottering, that was bad enough, and now, on top of that, like a grisly dessert following a putrid main course, his marriage was tottering too. She felt a rush of warmth for him, for this man she had sometimes hated and had, for the last three hours at least, feared. A kind of epiphany filled her. Most of all, she hoped he would always think he had been as mad as hell, and not ... not the way his face said he felt. ~ Stephen King

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Few techniques are so successful, lady and gentlemen, as the one where you boggle the target's mind, freeze him with greed, then blitz him. ~ Stephen King

As I said, many. They are passing even now. An endless parade of them. They smile, they bow, a child wags his tongue like a dog's tail. Some of them speak. Do you know the poet George Seferis? ~ Stephen King

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me. ~ Stephen King

And what do we get for our faith? For the centuries we've given this church or that one our gifts of blood and treasure? The assurance that heaven is waiting for us at the end of it all, and when we get there, the punchline will be explained and we'll say, 'Oh yeah! Now I get it.' That's the big payoff. It's dinned into our ears from our earliest days: heaven, heaven, heaven! We will see our lost children, our dear mothers will take us in their arms! That's the carrot. ~ Stephen King

It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, 'what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for? ~ Stephen King

Like most men with what's known as "house-help," Pimli Prentiss had no clear sense of his employees as creatures with goals, ambitions, and feelings - ~ Stephen King

You're very pleasant to be with," she said. "I like you very much. And it's wonderful that you're not crazy. ~ Stephen King

It's a prissy, overdecorated P238 SIG Sauer, red and black, with gold-inlaid flowers scrolling down the barrel. Morris drops the clip and sees it's full. There's even one in the pipe. He puts the clip back in and lays the gun on the desk - something else to take along. ~ Stephen King

Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be. ~ Stephen King

Baby can you dig your man? He is a righteous man! ~ Stephen King

The mask-face was very close to the face of Pennywise, the clown in the movie. The ~ Stephen King

Frankly speaking, you look like ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag. ~ Stephen King

Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug. ~ Stephen King

He fell silent. For several moments they all did, and the quiet had the feel of a deliberate thing. Then Eddie said, All right, we're back together again. What the hell do we do next? ~ Stephen King

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you? ~ Stephen King

Small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation. ~ Stephen King

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'. ~ Stephen King

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing. ~ Stephen King

Something went wrong a few years ago and I knew it was a bad thing but I didn't know it was bad for me. I thought it just happened and then I was going to get over it. But things keep falling down inside me. I'm sick with it. I keep doing things. ~ Stephen King

True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring - once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome ... except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners.
And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous. ~ Stephen King