Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.