I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.
Stephen KingI wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.
Stephen KingI believe the first draft of a book โ even a long one โ should take no more than three monthsโฆAny longer and โ for me, at least โ the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.
Stephen KingYou know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. Itโs only kids in high school who are convinced theyโre never going to change. Thereโs always going to be a pep rally and thereโs always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.
Stephen KingI drink a lot of beer, and that's the drug of choice. You find the drug that works for you. I know, for instance, this guy named Harlan Ellison - and he's not alone - who's very proud of the fact that he doesn't put dope into his body. He tries not to put additives into his body, or anything like that. But he can afford to do that because Harlan's drug of choice is Harlan.
Stephen King