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
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.
The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.
Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.
She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.
Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one
Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.
Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.
There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.
Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.
He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.