“We had nothing. I mean, I was working at a gas station. I was pumping gas. And then when I graduated from school, she was still in school. Then when I got a job working at a wet-wash laundry because I couldn't get a teaching job, we had jack shit for money. She was working in a Dunkin' Donuts when I…”— Stephen King, rollingstone.comTagged: How to be a writer
“When you find somebody like, let's say, Ted Bundy, who tortured and killed all those women and sometimes went back and had sex with the dead bodies, I don't think when you look at his upbringing... That behavior was hard-wired. Evil is inside us. The older I get, the less I think there's some sort o…”— Stephen King, rollingstone.comTagged: Evil, Why we believe what we believe, Violence, Why people are such dicks
“I choose to believe in God because it makes things better. You have a meditation point, a source of strength. I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink t…”— Stephen King, rollingstone.comTagged: Religion, Why we believe what we believe
“It was this assumption that if fiction was selling a lot of copies, it was bad. If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb. And that's elitist. I don't buy it.”— Stephen King, rollingstone.comTagged: the ivory tower
“Hemingway sucks, basically. If people like that, terrific. But if I set out to write that way, what would've come out would've been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.”— Stephen King, rollingstone.comTagged: Horror, How to be a writer, Why we believe what we believe
“It's built in. That's all. The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated. I can't explain it. My wife and kids drink coffee. But I don't. I like tea. My wife and kids won't touch a pizza wi…”— Stephen King, rollingstone.comTagged: Horror, Why we believe what we believe