Quotes by Owen King - Page 1

I do try to entertain.
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Try
Entertain
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I'm a very liberal person.
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Person Very
Liberal
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My parents and my brother root for me.
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Root
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I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.
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Intentionally
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I grew up watching Cinemax, the late-night Cinemax of the '80s and early '90s.
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Late Night
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Steve Buscemi is the little black dress of cinema, appropriate for any occasion.
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Appropriate
Occasion
Steve
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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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Finish
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My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.
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Judgment
Massive
Precious
Strewn
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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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Depressed
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My father has been a major force in the popular culture for a long, long time. He's a fascinating person.
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Fascinating
Popular Culture
Time Culture Long
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The questions about my father are inevitable, regardless of the characters I create or the subject matter.
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Inevitable
Subject Matter
Regardless
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I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.
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Coal
Miners
Pennsylvania
Northern
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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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Complaining
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I think it's almost impossible to edit something to death. I think you can make things better almost indefinitely.
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Edit
Indefinitely
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I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.
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New Perspective
New People
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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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Conventional
Graveyard
Mr
Ghosts
Mercedes
Vampires
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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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Disappointment
Stephen King
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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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Everyday
Everyday Life
Life Funny Time
Occasionally
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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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Car
Fancy
Manhattan
Summer
Afford
Mercedes
Stock
Stock Market
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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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Gather
Hypnotized
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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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Capable
Improving
Physically
Dramatically
Steve
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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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Depressing
Handful
Better More Than
Admit
Al
Al Pacino
Served
Steve
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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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Closest
Truest
Life Always Me
Wanna
Reproduce
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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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Demented
Sanctification
Corollary
Wars
Final
Star Wars
Trilogy
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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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Comic
Common
Sibling
Art Forms
Books
Forms
Close
Films
Seem
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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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Athlete
Mow
Sciences
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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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Closest
Eternal
Eternal Life
Selected
Life Happiness Moment
Informed
Suspect
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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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Comic
Disbelief
Easy
Natural
Stories
Zone
Writer
Me More I Can
Suspend
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For me, the easiest thing to figure out is the story I want to tell, and the hardest thing is to figure out the voice that's gonna tell it. And that's why I finish very little.
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Hardest Thing
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Finish
The Hardest Thing
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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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Dylan
Sought
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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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Accomplishment
Paper
Printed
Son
Published
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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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Despite
Enormous
Maine
Millionaire
Normal Childhood
Public Schools
Strangely
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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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Creative Writing
Journalism
Drive
Ballpark
First Job
Gig
Local
Pretty Good
Reviewing
Screenwriter
Tractor
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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
Bored
Brother
Our Father
Sentence
Third
Writes
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I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.
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Bleak
Elements
Humiliating
Retrospect
Life Funny Humor
Ring
Disappointments
Entirely
Oftentimes
Savage
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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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Death
Movie
Court
Evil
Late
Mask
Red
Alert
Favorite
Dead
Dances
Early
Price
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