Owen King Quotes

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.
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.
I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent for me.
I'm a very liberal person.
It's hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time.
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.
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.
My father has been a major force in the popular culture for a long, long time. He's a fascinating person.
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.
My parents and my brother root for me.
My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.
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.
Stephen King's 'Mr. Mercedes' is not a conventional horror novel. No ghosts, no vampires, no prune-faced escapees of the graveyard.
Steve Buscemi is the little black dress of cinema, appropriate for any occasion.
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.
The questions about my father are inevitable, regardless of the characters I create or the subject matter.
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.
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.
Who wouldn't be depressed living in a society that can't agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?
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