Stephen King Quotes About Nightmares

Quotes about: Nightmares

• So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Night, Ideas

• Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

  Stephen King

  Fun, Littles, Logic

  "Alan Wake: gaming's greatest Stephen King story" by Matthew Byrd, www.denofgeek.com. December 21, 2017.

• I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.

  Stephen King

  Giving, Nightmare

• For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

  Stephen King

  Sweat, Bed, Comfort

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

• That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Nightmare, Said

  Stephen King (2017). “It: A Novel”, p.474, Simon and Schuster

• A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Running, Real

• 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.

• I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "Stephen King and Director Frank Darabont Talk The Mist". The Mist press conference, movieweb.com. November 13, 2007.

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