quote collection

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
~ Stephen King

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

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

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
~ Algernon H. Blackwood

Now it is the time of night
That the graves, all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite
In the church-way paths to glide.
~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

There’s no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.
~ Stephen King