Stephen King Quotes

Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid - after all, it's only a game - but it could enrich your life.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.