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
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls...
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.
What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.
What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Rud, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read what they're trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they're trying to keep out of your brains. Because that's exactly what you need to know.
Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories,
Madness is a kind of mental suicide.
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
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.