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 need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.
I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
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.
There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of stuff that is written in this field, though, that is not very good. You just have to look for the good stuff.
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.
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.