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b. 1947
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author, screenwriter, musician, columnist, actor, film producer and director. A 2003 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Book Awards, King's books have been enormously successful, and are often featured on bestseller lists.
Also known as: King, Stephen, Rage (King novel), 11/22/63, 1408 (short story), Apt Pupil, Bag of Bones
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I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker.
Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
Christine (1983)
Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room!
Everything's Eventual (2002)
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don't think it's in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.
Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.
Bag of Bones (1998)
Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads.
Rage (1977)
"A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men."
Under the Dome (2009)
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Different Seasons (1982)
America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we've all heard plenty of both in our time.
Under the Dome (2009)
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.
The Stand (1978)
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
The Stand (1978)
It was things like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he thought, that made you believe the world was maybe just as well off destroyed.
The Stand (1978)
If dogs could fly, nobody would go out without an umbrella.
Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
Pet Sematary (1983)
A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.
Christine (1983)
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.
Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual.
It (1986)
Although it is difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened.
Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
Maybe I did it because kids need to know that sometimes dead is better.
Pet Sematary (1983)
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