"Stephen King is the Dickens of contemporary America. An outstanding writer ... Kim is one of the most creative writers of contemporary novels. Sunday Times

In 2003, when the National Book Foundation of the United States decided to formally award Stephen King the Lifetime Achievement Award for the series of "The Tower of Darkness", they declared in their acceptance speech: "His works inherited the great tradition of attaching importance to plot and atmosphere in American literature and reflected all kinds of beautiful and tragic moral truths in the depths of human soul".

Stephen King himself is a writer who designs his works according to the bestseller rule. He has always followed the popular line. He writes novels according to the Hollywood model. This writer is talented enough, and he has the ability to control literature. —— Xie Gang, President of Xinxing Publishing House

Stephen King's reflection on life is regarded as an excellent writer in popular literature, because he not only demands to attract readers and tell a horror story, but also emphasizes the deep-seated things in contemporary social life. —— Ma Ji, head of online literature and researcher of genre literature of Chinese Writers Association.