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 see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.
Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.
It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.
It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.
The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.
A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.
Successful rebellions always begin in secret.
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.