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
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.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Only God gets things right the first time.
Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.
The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and you'll be happy.' I'm happy now, and that has had an effect on my life and my relationship with my wife and kids and even my friends. I've always wanted to be a writer.
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?