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41 " Which reminds me of something that happened at the 1979 World Fantasy Convention. A UPI reporter asked me the eternal question: ‘Why do people read this horror stuff?’ My reply was essentially Harlan’s; you try to catch the madness in a bell-jar so you can cope with it a little better. People who read horror fiction are warped, I told the reporter; but if you don’t have a few warps in your record, you’re going to find it impossible to cope with life in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The headline on the UPI squib that came down the wire and into newspapers coast to coast was predictable enough, I suppose, and exactly what I deserved for presuming to speak metaphorically to a newspaperman: KING SAYS HIS FANS ARE WARPED. Open mouth; insert foot; close mouth. "
― Stephen King , Danse Macabre
42 " What’s behind the door or lurking at the top of the stairs is never as frightening as the door or the staircase itself. "
43 " Ciò che separa l'individuo di talento dall'individuo di talento e di successo è un sacco di duro lavoro e di studio; un costante processo di affilatura.Il talento è un coltello smussato che non taglierà niente se non è brandito con grande forza, una forza così grande che il coltello non taglia ma frantuma, spezza. "
44 " If the horror story is our rehearsal for death, then its strict moralities make it also a reaffirmation of life and good will and simple imagination—just one more pipeline to the infinite. "
45 " it is relatively impervious to that awful, dreadful goblin of a reader, he or she WHO TURNS TO THE LAST THREE PAGES TO SEE HOW IT CAME OUT. "
46 " But, being who I am and what I am, I cannot find it in my heart to wish you pleasant dreams… "