Authors - Stephen King
Brief Biography
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books. King has published 50 novels, including seven under the pen-name of Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has written nearly two hundred short stories, most of which have been collected in nine collections of short fiction. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1948by Anonymous on 19/01/2011
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Quote 2255by Anonymous on 25/01/2011
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Quote 2782by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around.
Quote 3183by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Quote 3354by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Quote 3683by Anonymous on 09/02/2011
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
Quote 4188by Anonymous on 16/02/2011
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Quote 4359by Anonymous on 20/02/2011
If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
Quote 4401by Anonymous on 20/02/2011
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.
Quote 4437by Anonymous on 21/02/2011
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.
Quote 4716by Anonymous on 26/02/2011
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
Quote 10838by Anonymous on 04/11/2012
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
