Stephen King — People

A golden flame rises from cupped stone hands against an orange sunset and dark clouds. — Original artwork

And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

Stephen King

Painterly jester mask and curled party horn with scattered confetti against bright pink. — Original artwork

Anything with the power to make you laugh over 30 years later isn’t a waste of time.

Stephen King

A single wooden chess pawn stands among fallen dominoes on a brown tabletop against an olive background. — Original artwork

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Stephen King

A small red heart rests on red thread stretched between two teal cotton reels. — Original artwork

Those in the grip of a strong drug—heroin, devil grass, true love—often find themselves trying to maintain a precarious balance between secrecy and ecstasy as they walk the tightrope of their lives.

Stephen King

A yellow rubber duck sitting in a small red velvet armchair beside a round side table. — Original artwork

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

A gunslinger in a long coat follows a dark-clad figure across a red desert at sunset, ruined towers on the horizon. — Original artwork

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Stephen King

A long hotel corridor with a bold geometric red-and-orange carpet stretches into the distance, a small tricycle standing far down the hall. — Original artwork

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Disputed attribution: Stephen King

An old typewriter and a stack of manuscript pages on a wooden desk by a window overlooking pines and a lake at sunset, an empty chair pulled up. — Original artwork

One word at a time.

Stephen King