Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Quotes

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

I've always been a big fan of Stephen King, especially in my teenage years.

I'm a Stephen King fanatic.

I'm a big Stephen King fan.

Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.

I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

I think it was in sixth grade, though, when I picked up my first Stephen King book, which was 'It,' that knocked me over and terrified me for years. Then I never went back. I had to own every Stephen King book and read them at least three times. They would terrify me completely, but I couldn't stop. That became my preferred source of fiction.

Of course, the whole mythology of the world of 'It' is very attractive to me.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.' I loved the hidden, scary layers, but there wasn't that much around for youngsters in terms of horror books. I can remember reading Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot' and 'Cujo,' but I thought there should be more for teenaged horror fans.

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible.

I don't like the vampire books. I don't like any of those.

I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

I'm a huge fan of the book and Stephen King is one of my big heroes, literary heroes, and I am a fan, and I want to see a movie of 'It.'

When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance again.

After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

Pet Sematary' is one of my favorite books of Stephen King and I have a deep love relationship with it.