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
Writing is seduction.
He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories,
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.
If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.
If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.
Terror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around there’s nothing there.
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.
Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.
The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.
At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations? We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style... but as we move along, you'd do well to remember that we are also talking about magic.