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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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And almost idly, in a kind of sidethought, Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
It (1986)
Come on back and we'll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.
It (1986)
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
The Stand (1978)
"He was a loser, you know. Every high school has to have at least two: it's like a national law. One male, one female. Everyone's dumping ground."
I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids...Because as soon as you have a kid, you know for sure that you're going to die. When you have a kid, you see your own gravestone.
Christine (1983)
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, roughly 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States. Most are found. Thousands are not.
The Institute (2019)
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.
The Shining (1977)
You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.
It (1986)
I'm going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee!
Pet Sematary (1983)
He felt as if Stillson might have taken the game of the Laughing Tiger a step further: inside the beast-skin, a man, yes. But inside the man-skin, a beast.
The Dead Zone (1979)
You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go... well, anywhere at all.
It (1986)
Black serendipity. Maybe we know that under the right set of circumstances the things that live in the catacombs would be glad to crawl out.
Different Seasons (1982)
He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.
Misery (1987)
In these silences, something may rise.
Desperation (1996)
You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository of all you could become.
It (1986)
If I know anything, I know scary. And giving this president and this out-of-control Congress two more years to screw up our future is downright terrifying. Thankfully, this national nightmare is one we can end.
On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematary was appalling when it first came out on to the page.
It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living or get busy dying.
Different Seasons (1982)
"one of the greats...Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon."
She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again.
Misery (1987)
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