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" I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad. "
Owen King
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" I was pretty naive about how hard it would be to get out from under the family name. Not that I'm complaining. "
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" My parents and my brother root for me. "
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" I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny. "
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" I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do. "
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" I'm a very liberal person. "
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" Who wouldn't be depressed living in a society that can't agree on reality, let alone health-care policy? "
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" One corollary of the wretchedness of the second trilogy of 'Star Wars' films has been the final, demented sanctification of the first trilogy of films. "
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" A lot of storytelling... you're a bit hypnotized by it, and things just come out in certain ways, and you look at it and try to gather it. "
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" I went to public schools in Bangor, Maine, and had as normal a childhood as you could imagine someone could, living in an enormous red house and being the son of a millionaire best-selling writer. I mean, I actually had a strangely normal childhood despite all that. "
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" My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me. "
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" It's not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it's more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic. "
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" My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down time, and I got to drive tractor, so it was pretty good gig. I've also taught creative writing, dabbled in reviewing and journalism, and toiled as a screenwriter. "
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Time
" I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce. "
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Think
" When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I would play it - where first person writes a sentence, and the second person writes a sentence, and the third person writes a sentence, and so on until you get bored and have to go to bed. "
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Bed
You
Writing
" Comic books and films have a lot more in common than, say, comics and books or films and books. The two art forms, to me, seem like pretty close siblings. "
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Me
" I suspect that perfect happiness is not possible for me. I suppose if I was ever selected for eternal life - the moment I was informed - that would bring me the closest. "
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" The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars - a Mercedes, say. "
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" I didn't want to write a book as Stephen King's son, because all I did was get born, and that's not much of an accomplishment. If that was the reason my book was published, it wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on. I wanted to do my own thing. "
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" Stephen King's 'Mr. Mercedes' is not a conventional horror novel. No ghosts, no vampires, no prune-faced escapees of the graveyard. "
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" The last thing I want to do is to present something as 'Stephen King, Part II,' and have it be something that's a big disappointment. "
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" I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time. "
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" I didn't really get serious about my own writing until I was convinced it was something that I wanted to do, that I wanted to spend that much time alone. "
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" I do try to entertain. "
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" Although it's depressing to admit this, more than a handful of post-'Donnie Brasco' Al Pacino roles would have been better served by Steve Buscemi. "
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" Steve Buscemi is the little black dress of cinema, appropriate for any occasion. "
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" Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally really great, though not all the time, and that's all part of it. "
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" Just because it's physically impossible for Steve Buscemi to be in every movie doesn't mean he's not capable of dramatically improving them all. "
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" I like 'Reanimator,' and I like 'Evil Dead 2.' But I really like the Corman movies from the late '60s and early '70s, and my favorite is 'The Mask of Red Death' with Vincent Price because - spoiler alert - but at the end of the movie, Vincent Price, he's the evil prince, and to kill him, his court just, like, dances at him. "
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" I think the model that I look at is someone like Jakob Dylan, whose dad is obviously every bit if not more famous than mine. He's a guy who sought to build a career on his own, doing something that's a little bit different than what his father does. "
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" It's hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time. "
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