Stephen King Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Dream, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

• The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood.

  Stephen King

  Sweet, Oil, Childhood

• The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

  Stephen King

  Childhood, Stories, Remember

• Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

  Stephen King

  Children, Play, Childhood

• Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

  Stephen King

  Real, Halloween, Childhood

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.782, Simon and Schuster

• The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Lying, Kids

• I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Night, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

• My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

  Stephen King

  Light, Imagination, Childhood

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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