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 don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.
When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.
Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.
What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.
There’s always someone who knows something.
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.
A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.
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.