Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King
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92 “responsible for destroying anybody’s ego completely”: Bare Bones, p. 76.
93 “I don’t know why”: Writers Dreaming, p. 142.
93 “they would bury them in the sandbox in our backyard”: Castle Rock, August 1987.
93 “Then they’d have a little after-burial party”: Ibid.
94 “Mommy and Daddy collapsed on the lawn”: Ibid.
94 “And that was the end of it. Almost”: Ibid.
94 “I found that very, very hard to read and deal with”: Biography: Stephen King, 2000.
94 “maybe I could sell these to a magazine of short stories”: BBC, An Audience with Stephen King, November 12, 2006.
95 “So we do for others”: Good Housekeeping, September 2001.
95 “and not hurt anyone if you can help it”: New York Times, August 13, 2000.
95 “Hold on, let me finish this paragraph!”: Stephen King from A to Z, p. 238.
CHAPTER SIX: THE RUNNING MAN
96 “there had to be a way to improve on nature”: Age, November 25, 2006.
96 “He is not now and never has been an alcoholic”: Mystery Ink, 1979.
97 “they have all the good munchie food too”: Bare Bones, p. 206.
97 “I’d order a beer and Steve would order three”: Master of the Macabre, TLC/BBC Documentary, 1999.
98 “that’s why their faces retain a youthful look”: Bare Bones, p. 38.
98 “I am a dickey bird on the back of civilization”: Ibid.
98 “ ‘that’s not funny, that’s horrible!’ ”: Castle Rock, March 1987.
99 “a real big plot and subplots”: Times of London, October 21, 2006.
99 “all the pillows have been treated with low-grade poison gas”: Bare Bones, p. 68.
100 “which is typical of writers”: Ibid., p. 72.
100 “and you let them do that”: Dream Makers, 2: 277.
101 “I feel like I’ve earned it”: Bare Bones, p. 68.
101 “try to convey some of that in my fiction”: Salon, September 24, 1998.
102 “once you are north of Freeport”: Hollywood’s Stephen King, p. 3.
102 “there are no distractions whatsoever”: Feast of Fear, p. 254.
103 “I thought it was destiny”: Stephen King Companion, p. 77.
104 “I capture the bat and put it out while he just screams”: Stephen King Country, p. 86.
104 “Tabby wanted spiders and webs”: Ibid.
104 “I wanted superhero characters, not demonic characters”: Ibid.
105 “The chair was empty”: “An Interview with Stephen King,” by Janet Beaulieu, November 17, 1988.
105 “a medium said she had a message from her”: Highway Patrolman, July 1987.
105 “denies that there is a link between smoking and lung cancer”: Ibid.
105 “I didn’t even take the shaving cream off my face”: Feast of Fear, p. 109.
106 “This is the book”: Bare Bones, p. 133.
106 “except admire it as sculpture”: Paris Review, Fall 2006.
106 “There was no moral struggle at all”: Feast of Fear, p. 100.
106 “my childhood was quite happy, in a solitary way”: Faces of Fear, p. 241.
107 “only from a more mature perspective”: Ibid., p. 222.
107 “and then went where I wanted”: Ibid.
107 “it will crystallize a scene for me”: Paris Review, Fall 2006.
108 “A part of me dies when the World Series is over”: Faces of Fear, p. 227.
108 “maybe white guys can do something in sports”: Ibid.
108 “not only is this house vacant but it’s haunted”: Castle Rock, August 1987.
108 “part of them wants to see you fall as far as you can”: Ibid.
108 “The fan had obviously done this often”: Castle Rock, December 1986.
108 “like the ones Lennon used to wear”: London Observer, August 9, 1998.
109 “there are real crazy people out there”: Castle Rock, August 1987.
CHAPTER SEVEN: DIFFERENT SEASONS
110 “some publisher thought they would make sales on the novelty”: Castle Rock, December 1987.
110 “she had turned out a damned fine piece of work”: Bare Bones, p. 46.
110 “as he did with mine”: Faces of Fear, p. 222.
111 “boredom often leads to actual thought, exploration, and discovery”: Onyx Reviews, May 2006.
111 “But once I start, I’m hard to turn off”: Castle Rock, December 1987.
111 “and then entering the story”: Writer’s Digest, June 2007.
111 “ ‘Just let me go ahead and get on with the work’ ”: Bare Bones, p. 70.
111 “or what’s going to happen with it”: Ibid., p. 74.
112 “I didn’t know how long”: Complete Encyclopedia of Stephen King, p. 18.
113 “it takes for them to work out their problem”: Writer’s Digest, September 1991.
113 “But you never know when it’s going to happen”: Paris Review, Fall 2006.
113 “it’s short and it’s mean”: Times of London, October 21, 2006.
113 “It was tougher to react sympathetically to the woman”: Feast of Fear, p. 234.
114 “But what’s there is honest enough”: Ibid.
115 “And I like it that way”: Bare Bones, p. 199.
115 “because it pushes the old buttons”: Ibid., p. 200.
115 “The bl-o-o-d-y parts!”: Feast of Fear, p. 223.
115 “only because their father’s famous”: Ibid.
115 “It’ll be interesting to see what happens”: Ibid.
116 “as part of the company’s highest-level strategy”: Publishers Weekly, February 26, 2007.
117 “what is this tower and why does this guy need to get there?”: “An Interview with Stephen King,” by Janet Beaulieu, November 17, 1988.
117 “toss out our nightmares for the consumption of others”: Castle Rock, March 1987.
117 “who would watch Attack of the Crab Monsters four times”: Feast of Fear, p. 127.
118 “about ten pounds hanging off it”: Stephen King Country, p. 58.
118 “it was so funny”: Ibid., p. 59.
118 “you know when you’re doing a bad job”: Feast of Fear, p. 138.
118 “how Wile E. Coyote looks when he falls off a cliff?”: Stephen King at the Movies, p. 29.
119 “so he went to work”: Bare Bones, p. 81.
119 “For a little kid, it was a blast”: New York Times, March 18, 2007.
119 “That’s right, just a movie, officers”: Stephen King at the Movies, p. 80.
120 “not the way they did”: Ibid.
121 “and really screw our eyes out”: Bare Bones, p. 45.
121 “I don’t really need to fool around”: Ibid.
121 “I wouldn’t dare cheat on her!”: Ibid., p. 46.
121 “Infidelity is a shooting offense”: Publishers Weekly, February 10, 1997.
121 “it just slammed shut and cut your penis off”: Bare Bones, p. 189.
121 “before I got up on the goddamn scales”: Kingdom of Fear, p. 142.
122 “make me do all these terrible things to save my life”: Ibid.
122 “somebody started to lose weight and couldn’t stop”: Ibid.
122 “and I use everything”: Bare Bones, p. 90.
123 “because they loved it too”: Times of London podcast, January 28, 2007.
123 “And you don’t miss what’s not there”: Nightline, November 15, 2007.
123 “maybe that’s just a lot of horseshit, I don’t know”: The Province, Dienstag, April 22, 1997.
123 “because their fathers are gone”: Dream Makers, p. 278.
124 “with a real tendency toward violence”: Salon, September 24, 1998.
124 “I’m pretty sure my father’s dead”: Bare Bones, p. 35.
124 “after you’ve done your important work”: Dream Makers, 2: 281.
125 “all the things that are not the story”: O
n Writing, p. 57.
125 “and at that point they’ll be right”: Dream Makers, 2: 282.
125 “Nobody ever talked about Plymouth cars anymore”: Twilight Zone, February 1984.
126 “any mainstream Hollywood actor I could think of”: Fangoria, July 1984.
127 “it makes us forget it is supernatural”: Chicago Sun-Times, October 26, 1983.
128 “she’ll accuse me of stealing one of her ideas”: Monsterland Magazine, May 1985.
128 “imagine what it would be like to be such a person”: Castle Rock, August 1987.
128 “don’t write anything like he does”: Ibid.
128 “merely another flawed human being”: Ibid.
128 “if it was okay to have breakfast”: Ibid.
129 “balls-to-the-wall rock music can provide”: Castle Rock, October 1987.
129 “like I’m on my student driver’s permit”: Feast of Fear, p. 195.
129 “That book came out of a real hole in my psyche”: Times of London podcast, January 28, 2007.
130 “and I don’t really believe that”: USA Today, May 10, 1985.
CHAPTER EIGHT: MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
132 “I’m the Firestarter, I’m Charlie McGee”: Creepshows, p. 38.
132 “and a resounding failure as a film”: Ibid., p. 39.
132 “attacking these movies”: Ibid.
132 “much less than the sum of those parts”: Ibid.
132 “the most astonishing thing in the movie is how boring it is”: Chicago Sun-Times, January 1, 1984.
133 “our own repertory company of dragons, vampires, assorted Things”: Murderess Ink, 1979.
133 “there was nothing there to watch”: Feast of Fear, p. 94.
133 “It’ll pass”: Ibid., p. 101.
133 “and the ultimate comedy at the same time”: Boston Globe, April 15, 1990.
134 “I got the job for a while”: Ibid.
134 “in the window of a live sex show on Forty-second Street”: Fantasy Review, January 1984.
134 “whore duty for some marketing guy”: Ibid.
135 “And in a small town, you only have one”: Talk of the Nation, February 9, 1999.
135 “I should just write under a different name”: New York Times, March 18, 2007.
136 “It’s not the fucking Mona Lisa”: New York Times, August 13, 2000.
136 “maybe that’s why they live science fiction”: Dream Makers, 2: 275.
137 “It became a mission for me to respect Steve’s privacy”: Kingdom of Fear, p. 129.
137 “ ‘You can’t copy him,’ they said”: A Good Read, Maine Public Television, August 2004.
137 “The poor guy was one ugly son of a bitch”: Kingdom of Fear, p. 124.
138 “This is what Stephen King would write like if Stephen King could really write”: Ibid., p. 132.
138 “I was about eighty percent convinced Bachman was Stephen King”: Ibid., p. 124.
138 “Let’s talk”: Ibid., p. 125.
138 “they all have downbeat endings”: Ibid., p. 132.
138 “and his fear was that he would lead his audiences astray”: Ibid.
138 “died of cancer of the pseudonym”: Castle Rock, June 1987.
139 “in this case, Richard Bachman”: Creepshows, p. 54.
139 “I deserved to be because it was lazy”: Writer’s Digest, September 1991.
139 “you think is a dead giveaway, it’s a trick”: Stanley Wiater interview, 1984 World Fantasy Convention.
139 “unsure myself who had written what”: Encyclopedia of Stephen King, p. 58.
140 “carried in their back pockets to work”: Fangoria, p. 10.
140 “if the actor happens to be a Mack truck”: Feast of Fear, p. 186.
141 “would be easier than working with actors”: Castle Rock, September 1986.
141 “always gave me more than I expected”: Feast of Fear, p. 186.
141 “and sort of allow you to mess up”: Talk of the Nation, February 9, 1999.
141 “or the other thing if it’s bad news”: Stephen King at the Movies, p. 72.
142 “I just can’t see going through that kind of thing again”: Feast of Fear, p. 262.
142 “as if the Porn Fairy had visited in the middle of the night”: Castle Rock, July 1986.
142 “I really didn’t know what I was doing”: Hollywood’s Stephen King, p. 20.
142 “he did seem to be strung out”: Entertainment Weekly, September 27, 2002.
143 “we’re renting them”: Feast of Fear, p. 279.
143 “Then it might seem real”: Newsweek, June 10, 1985.
143 “and take another walk in the afternoon”: Faces of Fear, p. 256.
143 “that I always have in mind”: Ibid.
144 “they changed the batteries in the smoke detector?”: Ibid., p. 239.
144 “I’m afraid of what it’s doing to my life”: Ibid.
144 “but it puts you on a pedestal”: Castle Rock, August 1986.
144 “I’m just another woman driving around with a dog in her car”: Castle Rock, January 1986.
145 “If keeping him in the car until the bell rings makes him feel better, then okay”: Bare Bones, p. 56.
145 “they know what you’re going to do”: Bare Bones, p. 13.
145 “they’ll get sucked in”: Ibid., p. 95.
145 “I put all the monsters in that book”: Ibid., p. 176.
146 “I wanted to write about a real troll under a real bridge”: Secret Windows, p. 322.
146 “dropped it into the book, and didn’t change a thing”: Writers Dreaming, pp. 137–38.
147 “it’s still in the books today”: Salon, September 24, 1998.
147 “I started to get a lot of that stuff back”: Writers Dreaming, p. 141.
147 “I don’t seem to have so much to say about kids anymore”: Feast of Fear, p. 199.
149 “we don’t get locked in dark closets”: Castle Rock, August 1986.
149 “that’s the honest truth”: Ibid.
149 “It definitely motivated me to write more”: SDCC, July 27, 2007.
150 “His eyes are everywhere, trying to take in everything at once”: The Lost Work of Stephen King, p. 249.
CHAPTER NINE: THE LONG WALK
151 “She has very little interest in my vampires, ghoulies, and slushy crawling things”: Castle Rock, February 1987.
151 “if she won’t come to me, I’ll go to her”: Fangoria, p. 34.
152 “have the author do more than just answer it”: Castle Rock, March 1987.
152 “The book is the boss”: Ibid.
152 “any more than I could stop breathing”: Fangoria, p. 36.
152 “He plans to continue writing but publish less”: Castle Rock, September 1987.
153 “or my life or my bedroom or anything else. Fangoria, p. 80.
153 “what I have achieved was really meant for them”: Fresh Air, November 21, 2003.
153 “I hope he’s still discovering the unknown in me”: Castle Rock, August 1987.
153 “how much you do and do not know about another person”: Ibid.
153 “she actually generated a lot more sympathy in my heart than I expected”: Weekly Reader Writing magazine, October 2006.
153 “and didn’t have a clue”: Ibid.
154 “I write like fat ladies diet”: New Yorker, September 7, 1998.
154 “it can lead to self-indulgence”: Ibid.
154 “you better be pretty careful”: Writer’s Digest, September 1991.
154 “I never did that with a book”: Stephen King Companion, p. 292.
155 “Everything I wrote for the next year fell apart like tissue paper”: Fangoria, p. 47.
155 “constantly wanting to push things past the edge”: Faces of Fear, p. 256.
155 “Don’t you know I’m the king of the fucking universe?”: Guardian, September 14, 2000.
156 “There was something in that tar that she, that I, needed”: Ibid.
157 “If it
would change your consciousness, I was all for it”: Fresh Air, October 10, 2000.
157 “Then he decided to save himself”: Good Housekeeping, September 2001.
158 “Needless to say I was not successful in this”: Guardian, September 14, 2000.
158 “that stuff eats you from the inside out”: Ibid.
160 “It’s like it wasn’t my voice”: Entertainment Weekly, September 27, 2002.
160 “I think it would take away a lot of the good stuff”: Paris Review, Fall 2006.
160 “right away I knew it was a problem”: Guardian, September 14, 2000.
160 “who have three or four martinis when they get in from work”: Ibid.
161 “He covered well”: USA Today, February 12, 2007.
161 “I wrapped the whole book around that spine”: Waldenbooks Magazine, November/December 1989.
162 “other than it’s not normal”: Castle Rock, August 1987.
163 “But now I feel like myself again, only with wrinkles”: BBC, An Audience with Stephen King, November 12, 2006.
163 “it would have been a thirty-two-hour miniseries”: Talk of the Nation, February 9, 1999.
164 “gone into a total panic”: Fangoria, p. 48.
164 “I think the door has been finally opened for him”: Entertainment Weekly, September 27, 2002.
164 “had coaxed the best nonfiction writing of my life out of me”: Nightmares and Dreamscapes, p. 811.
166 “since I was sixteen without drinking or drugging”: Paris Review, Fall 2006.
166 “you ended up paying with your soul”: A Good Read, Maine Public Television, August 2004.
166 “maybe it just wasn’t a very good book”: Paris Review, Fall 2006.
167 “I think you have to grow up here”: A Good Read, Maine Public Television, August 2004.
CHAPTER TEN: IT GROWS ON YOU
168 “There was something very Snidely Whiplash about the whole thing”: Fresh Air, October 10, 2000.
168 “I told her I was doing an experiment”: Ibid.
168 “because she has been chained in a certain kind of life”: Times of London podcast, January 28, 2007.
169 “you feel so grateful to have it return”: Amazon.com, September 1998.
169 “and find ways to revitalize it”: Age, November 25, 2006.
169 “you’ll miss the surprises, and some of them are wonderful”: Good Housekeeping, September 2001.