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
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.
And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.
As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.
Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.
Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.
It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.
I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.
And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.