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
If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that.
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.
Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.
Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.
Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?
They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.
He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
You can't polish a turd.
The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy," she told herself complacently. "The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.
I can see your dirtypillows.
THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.