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 never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
True love always happens in a flash.
A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it ... I have written because it fulfilled me ... I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
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.