Nightmares and Dreamscapes Quotes

“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, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible bouts of stark raving reality as an adult.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“Здравей, мрак, стари мой приятелю.

Мечтите остаряват преди мечтателите.

— Не! - изкрещя, но беше прекалено късно. За частица от секундата зърна някакъв проблясък, сетне ръката му, която стискаше като кама химикалката, я заби в ококореното му око. Нещо изпука, той заподскача зад волана като марионетка, задвижвана от неопитен кукловод; химикалката се забиваше все по-дълбоко, а спуканата му очна ябълка се стичаше по стената му като абсурдна сълза. Металното връхче докосна някоя тънка преграда - вероятно хрущял - премина през нея и се заби в мозъка му.

Порастваш, ставаш мъж, свикваш да получаваш по-малко, отколкото си се надявал, и изведнъж откриваш, че на машината за мечти виси огромна табела с надпис "НЕ РАБОТИ".”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“I don’t talk about this much, because it embarrasses me and it sounds pompous, but I still see stories as a great thing, something which not only enhances lives but actually saves them.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: A riveting, dark story collection from the No. 1 bestseller

“Better to be a mouse behind the wainscoting, nibbling at the wires. Better to be a spider, high up under the eaves, spinning its web.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“What are you planning?” “I think you’ve already guessed,” I said. “I have spent the last thirty-six hours digging the world’s longest grave, and now I’m going to bury you in your fucking Cadillac.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“This had not happened because they were evil people; it had not happened because the old gods were punishing them; it had happened because they had gotten lost in the woods, that was all, and getting lost in the woods was a thing that could happen to anybody.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: A riveting, dark story collection from the No. 1 bestseller

“That’s not to say there isn’t magic involved in writing; I happen to believe that there is, and that it twines around fiction with particular luxuriance”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“Wait for the storm to end and then enjoy the sunshine,”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“God I am unlucky. I don't hate You, but I fear You are not my friend, nor any man's friend.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“Just as John Graham was beginning to wonder if maybe the dog was dead, it lifted its tail and farted.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: A riveting, dark story collection from the No. 1 bestseller

“Well, as far as I’m concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: A riveting, dark story collection from the No. 1 bestseller

“London was asleep . . . but London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: A riveting, dark story collection from the No. 1 bestseller

“A regular man is a happy man,”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: A riveting, dark story collection from the No. 1 bestseller

“my mangled hands making rough approximations of fists.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: A riveting, dark story collection from the No. 1 bestseller

“I sat for a minute, watching membranes of sand skirl across the desert,”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: A riveting, dark story collection from the No. 1 bestseller

“They went in. And did not pass Go. And did not
collect two hundred dollars.

They went directly to bed.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“hard work is the only acceptable practice for those of us who have some talent but little or no genius.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“Thousands would have called him cold, and they would not have been wrong, precisely, but he also had a large heart.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“One becomes inured even to insight,”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“We believe we know a great lot, with our instruments and things, but I was old enough then to believe we don’t know half as much as we think we do, and old enough now to believe we never will.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“A man who would beat his wife is an abomination; a woman who would allow it an abomination and a perplexity.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“success, she firmly believed, depended as much on the little things as on the big ones.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“Sometimes his syntax was garbled and his modifiers misplaced, but he had such flaws—which plague most writers all their lives—”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“It’s only when a man like me stops laughing that people wonder if something is wrong.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

“men who are really more like wolves than men, develop a sort of sixth sense when it comes to danger.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes