Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
Stephen King has suffered from many addiction problems. He is now a recovering smoker, alcoholic, and cocaine addict. He says his wife is responsible for him quitting everything.
Stephen and Tabitha met in college when they were both working in a library. He states he fell in love with her during a poetry workshop in 1969.
Charlie McGee, main character of his novel Firestarter is a 9 year old girl. In the book's "afterword", Stephen thank his daughter Naomi for helping him understand the personality of a "bright nearly-10-years-old" girl.
If Derry really existed, it would be located a few miles west from Bangor, in the Pendescot district, Maine.
King's character Carrieta White (a.k.a. Carrie), was based on two girls Stephen King met during his school years.
In the novel Dreamcatcher, when Jonesy reaches the water tower in Derry, the phrase "Pennywise Lives" is written at the entrance. Pennywise is the name of the famous clown from his other novel, It.
He graduated from highschool in 1966.
His novel The Dark Half, in which his main character "murders" his pseudonym, closely mirrors the end of his own career as Richard Bachman.
Originally, Tabitha King is who to thank for the classic Carrie. The reason why is that Stephen threw his first manuscript of "Carrie" in the garbage. Tabitha loved it so much she retrieved it and got him to reconsider.
Much of Stephen's life can be found in his book On Writing. This is a writing guide and an autobiography.
Stephen wrote an X-Files episode entitled "Bunghoney" but later forced to retitle it to "Chinga" (5x10) because some might find the name inappropriate.
Stephen and Tabitha provide scholarships for local high school students and contribute to many other local and national charities.
Awards: 1982 Hugo Award (Non-Fiction) for Danse Macabre Locus Award (Non-Fiction) for Danse Macabre World Fantasy Award (Short Fiction) for Do the Dead Sing? 1986 Locus Award (Collection) for Skeleton Crew 1987 Bram Stoker Award (Best Novel) for Misery (Tie) 1990 Bram Stoker Award (Fiction Collection) for Four Past Midnight 1995 Bram Stoker Award (Long Fiction) for Lunch at the Gotham Cafe World Fantasy Award (Short Fiction) for The Man in the Black Suit 1996 Bram Stoker Award (Novel) for The Green Mile O. Henry Award for The Man in the Black Suit 1997 Horror Guild (Novel) for Desperation Locus Award (Novel) for Desperation 1998 Bram Stoker Award (Novel) for Bag of Bones 1999 Locus Award (Novel) for Bag of Bones 2000 Bram Stoker Award (Non-Fiction) for On Writing 2001 Horror Guild (Non-Fiction) for On Writing Horror Guild (Long Story) for Riding the Bullet Locus Award (Non-Fiction) for On Writing 2002 Horror Guild (Novel) for Black House 2003 Horror Guild (Novel) for From a Buick 8 Horror Guild (Collection) for Everything's Eventual Horror Writer's Association (Lifetime Achievement Award) National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters 2004 World Fantasy Award - Lifetime Achievement Award 2005 Quill Award (Sports) for Faithful
Ironically Stephen, a man called "The Master of Horror," reportedly hates Halloween.
From 1977 - 1984, King published five books under the pseudonym "Richard Bachman." Eventually a journalist uncovered the secret and King gave up the identity. In 1996, however, he published his novel "The Regulators" as a posthumous work by Bachman.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Stephen has had more movie adaptations of his works than any other living author.
It's rumored that Stephen will not sign autographs because of superstition. The fact is that he does not autographs photos at all because he hates the idolatry of celebrities. He also will not endorse an official fan club for the same reason. At one time, he would sign books if they were mailed to him for that reason, but to help ease his workload as he enters semi-retirement, Stephen will now only sign autographs at book-signings.
Height: 6'4"
In 1999 Stephen revealed that he suffers from a condition called Macular Degeneration. This is an eye disease in which the light-sensitive cells in the back of the eye malfunction and eventually stop working, causing blindness. The condition is currently incurable, though it might be treatable in its early stages through the use of a retinal prothesis which is currently being designed.
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