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 like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.
The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.
The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.
The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM
What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.
Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me
Publicly, I have always expressed a great deal of confidence in human nature, but in private I have wondered if anybody would ever pay for anything on the Net, ... It now looks as though people will, and I am faced with the real possibility of finishing 'The Plant.'
Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk.
That whole program took on a life of its own.
I think for many people there'll be no middle ground.
We know that they obtained these bodies in a fraudulent way and off the scale of acceptable practice.
I can function and I couldn't have ever done that before this treatment,