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
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.
Without story books is like a person with no soul.
When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.
Politics always change. Stories never do.
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.
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
A short story is like a kiss in the dark.
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.
Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.
I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.