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
All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.
I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.
Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
Life turns on a dime.
Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.
And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.
So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!