**** Q and A With King **** ---------►Something to Ponder.....Did you ever write Stephen King a fan letter before, or any other writer, and did they answer you back? (Phil Konstantin, interviewer, late 1970s) Q: I understand you dont like to be asked why you write the kind of stories you do. Is this correct? A: I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with that question. Its not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils. Q: When did you start writing? A: I started writing seriously when I was about 12. Q: Do you have to be in a special mood to start writing? A: I am always in the mood. Q: Do you have a certain method that you use when you write? A: It usually is a set schedule. I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land. (It is this type of turn of a phrase that has made Kings writing so poular) Q: Do you consider what you write horror stories? A: There are times when I like to think of it as mainstream fiction or literature. But in the back of my mind, in the closet where I keep the truth, I think of them as horror stories. A lot of them I think of as creep shows. (A few years after this interview, Stephen wrote a script for a movie by George Romero. That movie was titled Creep Show.) Q: Do you get letters from people that say they have actually experienced things like what you write about? A: Yes, I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead -- sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes very terrifying experiences. I do believe that a lot of them are sincere. I do believe, also, that some of them may be misguided. But, I think the majority of them have experienced something. This is something that you and I may stumble over like a stone in our paths at any time in our lives. I think everybody has experiences from time to time they cant explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 22:41:20 +0000
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