Stephen King Quotes

I don't think I'm angry. I'm horrified - powered by horror.

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

I shudder when relating it.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

Few things focus the mind like fear.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

There is no worse emotion than fear.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

Panic is a horrible thing.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

The strongest passion is fear.