Mike Flanagan Quotes

I'm a big Stephen King fan.

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

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

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

I'm a huge Stephen King fan.

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

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

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

The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.

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.

I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Garden' which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not!

I'd actually read the 'Twilight' books and seen the movies, and I was a fan.

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 actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books.

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

'The Shining' scares me so much.

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.'

I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.

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

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

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

Stephen [King], who wrote the script himself, was on the set [of The Stand], and I was just so fortunate to get to know him. What a wonderful man. He may go down in history as the greatest American writer, pound for pound.

What I would like to do is a thriller. I've been wanting to do that for a long time, but one that was not at all dependent on special effects. Just purely psychological, but will scare the hell out of you. That's what I would like to do. I have not found it yet.