Owen King quotes

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. (Owen King)

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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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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I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. (Owen King)

The questions about my father are inevitable, regardless of the characters I create or the subject matter.

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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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Who wouldn't be depressed living in a society that can't agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?

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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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My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.

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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.

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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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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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I didn't really get serious about my own writing until I was convinced it was something that I wanted to do, that I wanted to spend that much time alone.

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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. (Owen King)

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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It's hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time.

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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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