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
At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.
Time is a face on the water.
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.
FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying
Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.
You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.
The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.
The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.
The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM
Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.
He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.
If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.