Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
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Related A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King h... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf... NNEDI OKORAFOR Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer. MICKEY SPILLANE I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King. CLIVE CUSSLER There's a bunch of Stephen King books I love. 'Salem's Lot' was always one of my fav... PAUL CLEAVE If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER Stephen King is a powerful guy, will powerful vocabulary. DEYTH BANGER My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.... MICHAEL EASTON Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw... MARY GARDEN Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now e... DEYTH BANGER A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King. GEORGE A. ROMERO Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n... BRET ELLIS Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n... BRET EASTON ELLIS I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgi... ALEXANDER KOCH Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.&... PAUL DI FILIPPO When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King. LESLIE FIEDLER Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people. DANA STABENOW He said it was the kind of book you made your own. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Each character created by Stephen King is a proffesor... a guy full of knowledge. DEYTH BANGER I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia. TRACY CHAPMAN For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King'... GINA BARRECA Stephen King couldn't come up with a monster worse than this guy, STEVE RELFORD I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.'... DARREN SHAN The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, li... ROB REINER I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In th... ANNE RICE I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in ... TED NAIFEH Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's jo... BARRY EISLER Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense... ETHAN CANIN When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has ... ALLAN ADLER I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ... COREY TAYLOR Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains ... GARY KRIST Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of... LEV GROSSMAN When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I w... ERIN MORGENSTERN I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen... COREY TAYLOR I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma... MICHAEL GOVE 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already do... P. J. SOLES Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic th... WILLIAM H. MACY I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not tru... JOHN GREEN God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. STEPHEN KING So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside l... STEPHEN KING I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. STEPHEN KING The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. STEPHEN KING Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. HAROLD BLOOM Short Brief Story, How I started to make this which you see today? I'm talking about the works... DEYTH BANGER As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start ... STEPHEN KING (BEWARE) Stephen King interviews and speeches are incrediable very powerful. DEYTH BANGER Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents... NATHAN FILLION Pet Sematary 1 is one crazy story and film. DEYTH BANGER If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a think... JACK CANFIELD Goo can't be return from dead person, revive him and you will see an evil thing. WHich isn't really ... DEYTH BANGER The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a ... BEN E. KING Out of writing all those books, people were looking for Waldo in his prose. His books are ones that ... DOUG BRINKLEY King Stephen was a worthy peere,
His breeches cost him but a crowne;
He held them sixpence all... THOMAS PERCY Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says th... MICHAEL KORYTA Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird. STEPHEN KING The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter a... KEVIN BLEYER I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being whe... JAMES DASHNER Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people w... ILYASAH SHABAZZ We were just hoping that Stephen wasn't hurt seriously and will be able to join us again soon. DAVID HARRISON And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad ... STEPHEN KING They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too. STEPHEN KING If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with re... STEPHEN KING The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which... STEPHEN KING I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir... DEBORAH HARKNESS I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his fa... JAMES CAAN The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending... KIM YOUNG-HA Stephen King is a true literary master. We are thrilled beyond words to have him join Marvel on this... JOE QUESADA Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill. STEPHEN KING Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplac... STEPHEN KING Our hope is to somehow take King off the pages of history books and somehow bring him to life in a w... JOE ROGERS I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But... LISA GARDNER I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ... ANDREW CLEMENTS I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The role that publishers play in terms of helping to put together the product in a way that has mark... ALLAN ADLER I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. ... ANNA AKANA My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I got a chance to work with so many stalwarts from British cinema. Judi Dench, of course, who is a l... ALI FAZAL Your hair is winter fire, January embers. My heart burns there, too. -Stephen King, I... STEPHEN KING Books were king, but now movies are king and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a... ETHAN CANIN Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quali... ETHAN CANIN There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that offi... ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. STEPHEN KING Stephen Colbert has such a loyal following; I don't know if it's the same with Jay Leno; he ... LISA HANNIGAN The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the... VICTOR LAVALLE I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between. STEPHEN KING Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's gr... BERNADETTE PETERS It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en... STEPHEN KING I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape at... STEPHEN KING Stephen King was rejected 30 times before he finally gave up on getting his first book Carrie publis... LORI R TAYLOR Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges. STEPHEN KING This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, pre... STEPHEN KING You Can't Kill Stephen King, the great film of all time what more awesome than that?? You can't... DEYTH BANGER I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his... C. JOYBELL C. It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the p... JOHN BUCHANAN ROBINSON What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do. STEPHEN KING The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never kno... NATALIE MARTINEZ
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