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Stephen King
Birthdate: 21. September 1947
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and six non-fiction books. He has written around 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections.
His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the film The Shawshank Redemption which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.
Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine.
Works
The Green Mile
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The Shining
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The Gunslinger
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Pet Sematary
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Hearts in Atlantis
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Different Seasons
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Misery
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Doctor Sleep
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The Long Walk
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Joyland
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Bag of Bones
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Carrie
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The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
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Rage
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Duma Key
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Full Dark, No Stars
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Revival
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Lisey's Story
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The Body
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'Salem's Lot
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Christine
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The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
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Storm of the Century
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Dolores Claiborne
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Dreamcatcher
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Just After Sunset
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The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
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Needful Things
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Wizard and Glass
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The Dead Zone
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The Running Man
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Cujo
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Desperation
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Cell
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
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Insomnia
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Finders Keepers
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The Eyes of the Dragon
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
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Cycle of the Werewolf
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Mr. Mercedes
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Rose Madder
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The Tommyknockers
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Everything's Eventual
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Night Shift
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Skeleton Crew
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The Talisman
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Apt Pupil
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes
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Firestarter
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On Writing
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The Bachman Books
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Gerald's Game
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Four Past Midnight
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The Dark Half
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„Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?“
— Stephen King, book The Gunslinger
Source: The Gunslinger
„I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.“
— Stephen King, book Christine
Source: Christine
„Hearts can break. Yes. Hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.“
— Stephen King, book Hearts in Atlantis
Source: Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
„Talk had faded with the daylight. The silence that set in was oppressive. The encroaching dark, the groundmist collecting into small, curdled pools…for the first time it seemed perfectly real and totally unnatural, and he wanted either Jan or his mother, some woman, and he wondered what in the hell he was doing and how he ever could have gotten involved. He could not even kid himself that everything had not been up front, because it had been. And he hadn't even done it alone. There were currently ninety-five other fools in this parade.“
— Stephen King, book The Long Walk
The Long Walk (1979)
„The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.“
— Stephen King, book The Body
Different Seasons (1982), The Body
„It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.“
— Stephen King, Storm of the Century
Source: Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay
„Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor“
— Stephen King, book 11/22/63
Source: 11/22/63
„Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.“
— Stephen King, book Needful Things
Source: Needful Things
„Grammar is… the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.“
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
„Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.“
— Stephen King, book Hearts in Atlantis
Source: Hearts in Atlantis
„It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.“
— Stephen King, book The Body
Source: The Body
