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
If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.
When facts speak, the wise man listens.
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
Bad chances were better than no chances.
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.
Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.
I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.
The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.
Pay and the story rolls, .. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.
When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.
There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.