Stephen King Quotes About Ghosts

Quotes about: Ghosts

• Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

  Stephen King

  Hate, Real, Winning

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 26, 2013

• The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

  Stephen King

  Ghost, Sometimes, Muse

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag Of Bones: A Novel”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

• He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

  Stephen King

  Fists, Ghost, Twister

  "It". www.imdb.com. 1990.

• I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

  Stephen King

  Ghost, Mystery, Crime

  "Stephen King reverts to type with new book Joyland" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2012.

• But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.

  Stephen King

  Artist, People, Actors

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Half”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

• Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Past, Men

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

• They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

  Stephen King

  Dark, Walking Dead, Looks

  Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

• we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

  Stephen King

  Ghost Stories, Needs, Facts

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

• So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Fall, Eye

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

• So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Halloween, Ghost

  "Bag of Bones". Book by Stephen King, September 22, 1998.

• Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

  Stephen King

  Son, Scrooge, Saws

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

• The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Ghost Stories, Pieces

• When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.

  Stephen King

  Children, Supernatural Beings, Scare

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

• I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. 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 goblins, demons and devils.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Horror Stories, Guy

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

• I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, Blood

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

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