Stephen King Interview Essay
Ellie Warren
1st Hour
Stephen King Interview Interviewer: “Today a very special guest is coming to visit me. He has over 50 published novels, He has written nearly two hundred short stories, most of which have been collected in nine collections of short fiction and over 50 of those have been adapted into movies or television shows! Stephen King, everyone.”
King: “I’m actually kind of nervous, it’s scary as shit being in front of cameras.”
Interviewer: “Well, Mr. King. I’d think you’d be used to it by now. You’re awfully famous at this point!”
King: “When did I become Mr. King to you? I mean call me anything you want as long as the check doesn’t bounce.”
Interviewer: “So today we’re going to forget about the 350 million copies sold, we’re …show more content…
We’re going to forget that you’ve outsold
Charles Dickens 2x. It’s gonna get pretty personal here, I hope you’re okay with that.”
King: “Am I gonna cry?”
Interviewer: “You just might.”
King: “I think I’m ok with that.”
Interviewer: “Well we’re just gonna dive right in then. When did you first discover your love for writing, Mr King?”
King: “When I was supposed to be in the second grade, I started writing copycat books about Combat Casey. When I showed my mom, she told me to write one of my own. So I came up with Mr. Rabbit trick and the four magical animals. It was four pages long. When I finished, I gave it to my mother.”
Interviewer: “What did your mother think of that?”
King: “Oh, she adored it.She was completely charmed. She laughed in all of the right places. She told me it was good enough to be in a book.I tell you, It was the best feeling.
Better than any other good review i’ve …show more content…
Who was the first person you actually loved?”
King: “The teenage girl who lived next door when I was in the second grade. She never looked at me twice in a day time. But at night, we ran away from the cruel world of reality over and over again. Man, don’t you wish stuff like that actually happened?
Interviewer: “Did you feel that way about your wife?”
King: “Oh yeah, I was googlyeyed over her since the moment I saw her. After we met, we got married a year and a half later.”
Interviewer: “When did you guys have your kids?”
King: “”Three years after we got married. First came Naomi. Then we had Joe a few years later, and then Owen a few more years after that. They were neither planned nor unplanned, we were just happy to have them.”
Interviewer: “Adorable. So in your book On Writing: A Memoir of the craft, early on, you talk about drug addiction. Care to share your history with drugs?”
King: “Well damn, you read the book, didn’t you?
I did coke a lot. That’s how I wrote The TommyKnockers. I also drank a lot. I mean A LOT.
Which is why I don’t remember writing Cujo. Eventually my wife stepped in, and staged an intervention for me. She gave me the ultimatum of either going to rehab or getting the
1st Hour
Stephen King Interview Interviewer: “Today a very special guest is coming to visit me. He has over 50 published novels, He has written nearly two hundred short stories, most of which have been collected in nine collections of short fiction and over 50 of those have been adapted into movies or television shows! Stephen King, everyone.”
King: “I’m actually kind of nervous, it’s scary as shit being in front of cameras.”
Interviewer: “Well, Mr. King. I’d think you’d be used to it by now. You’re awfully famous at this point!”
King: “When did I become Mr. King to you? I mean call me anything you want as long as the check doesn’t bounce.”
Interviewer: “So today we’re going to forget about the 350 million copies sold, we’re …show more content…
We’re going to forget that you’ve outsold
Charles Dickens 2x. It’s gonna get pretty personal here, I hope you’re okay with that.”
King: “Am I gonna cry?”
Interviewer: “You just might.”
King: “I think I’m ok with that.”
Interviewer: “Well we’re just gonna dive right in then. When did you first discover your love for writing, Mr King?”
King: “When I was supposed to be in the second grade, I started writing copycat books about Combat Casey. When I showed my mom, she told me to write one of my own. So I came up with Mr. Rabbit trick and the four magical animals. It was four pages long. When I finished, I gave it to my mother.”
Interviewer: “What did your mother think of that?”
King: “Oh, she adored it.She was completely charmed. She laughed in all of the right places. She told me it was good enough to be in a book.I tell you, It was the best feeling.
Better than any other good review i’ve …show more content…
Who was the first person you actually loved?”
King: “The teenage girl who lived next door when I was in the second grade. She never looked at me twice in a day time. But at night, we ran away from the cruel world of reality over and over again. Man, don’t you wish stuff like that actually happened?
Interviewer: “Did you feel that way about your wife?”
King: “Oh yeah, I was googlyeyed over her since the moment I saw her. After we met, we got married a year and a half later.”
Interviewer: “When did you guys have your kids?”
King: “”Three years after we got married. First came Naomi. Then we had Joe a few years later, and then Owen a few more years after that. They were neither planned nor unplanned, we were just happy to have them.”
Interviewer: “Adorable. So in your book On Writing: A Memoir of the craft, early on, you talk about drug addiction. Care to share your history with drugs?”
King: “Well damn, you read the book, didn’t you?
I did coke a lot. That’s how I wrote The TommyKnockers. I also drank a lot. I mean A LOT.
Which is why I don’t remember writing Cujo. Eventually my wife stepped in, and staged an intervention for me. She gave me the ultimatum of either going to rehab or getting the