Stephen King Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Writing, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 10, 2013

• I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Best Job, Imagination

• The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Mean, Imagination

  "Writing Advice from Stephen King & Jerry Jenkins". Interview with Jessica Strawser, www.writersdigest.com. July 21, 2009.

• The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.

  Stephen King

  Imagination, Dark Tower, Gunslinger

  "The Dark Tower. Wizard and Glass". Book by Stephen King, Vol. IV, 1997.

• And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Nuts, People

• Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...

  Stephen King

  Simple, Thinking, Race

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

• Small towns harbor small imaginations.

  Stephen King

  Imagination, Towns, Small Town

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

• It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also the pool where some hardy souls go out in their flimsy wooden boats after the big ones. It is the pool of life, the cup of imagination, and she has an idea that different people see different versions of it, but with two things ever in common: it's always about a mile deep in the Fairy Forest, and it's always sad. Because imagination isn't the only thing this place is about.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Two, People

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

• When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Night, Color

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

• I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations. And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (an instant that is most commonly red). Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Memories, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

• What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Imagination, Laughing

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

• Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Imagination, World

• 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.

• You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

  Stephen King

  Men, Imagination, May

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.449, Simon and Schuster

• This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

  Stephen King

  Imagination, Needs, Fiction

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.405, Simon and Schuster

• If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, www.npr.org. December 1999.

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