- Stephen King: It's interesting to me to know that I have Southern roots. I had no idea. No idea of that.
- Stephen King: I'll never be able to play like Keith Richards, but I always did my best. I always had a blast.
- Stephen King: [to a fan at a book signing for his sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep] I didn't know what was gonna happen. I never know.
- Stephen King: I grew up interested in nightmares, scary stories and things that go bump in the night.
- Stephen King: [the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918] It could almost be out of a horror novel that I wrote.
- Stephen King: I always thought to myself you look like an Irishman and you've got the Irish imagination. I've always had that appreciation for fairies and ogres and boggarts.
- Stephen King: Information always leads to more questions, where you say to yourself "yes, but I want to know".
- Stephen King: [discovering your roots] I'm set back on my heels by this whole process. Like having a stage and turning on different lights so you see things you never saw before. It's a lot to contemplate.