Stephen King
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin Kingis an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows, and comic books. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and six non-fiction books. He has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 September 1947
CityPortland, ME
We're news junkies in my house.
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.