20 facts on Stephen King who are also seized that his books
Can you guess what adaptation to the film does this author hate the most?
With more than 60 pounds under his belt,Stephen King is one of the most famous, fruitful and prolific authors of our time. Best known for its horror and suspense books, classics likeCarrie andShiny, the 70-year-old author was nicknamed the King of Horror. His books are guaranteed so that you can turn the pages all night, but be careful because they are also required to give you a few nightmares too.
And it turns out, the true life of the king is as fascinating as the fictitious worlds he creates. The details of his haunted childhood to which the movie adaptations of his books, he hates the most, here are the most precious facts (and sometimes fantasies!) Any horror fan should know.
1 If you stack all Stephen King's books, they would be bigger than the man himself.
And that said a lot, since this author stands 6'4 ". In about 45 years of writing, Stephen King published 31,271 pages out of 59 novels, as well as five non-fiction works and more than 200 news. His most powerful. The known work includesShiny(1977),This(1986),Carrie(1974),Misery(1987),Corporate(1983), andThe green Line(1996). In addition, his memory,In writing(2000), is considered a must-see reading for each aspiration writer.
2 King used to write under a pseudonym-until he kills his alias.
When publishers advised Stephen King against the publication more than one pound a year in the late 1970s, King released seven novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. And of course, Bachman was a fully developed character. According to his "About the author" Blurbbs, Bachman was born in New York, served a four-year-old service in the navy, followed by 10 years in the merchant marines, until I could finally settle down In a new rural central hampshirt to handle a dairy farmhouse. It looks true.
In Washington, DC, Bookstore Clerk noticed similarities in Bachman and King's writing styles and exposed the pseudonym in the mid-1980s. King came with a public announcement that Richard Bachman had died of "pseudonym cancer cancer "
3 King holds the file for most movie adaptations of a single author.
Even if you have not read any of the king's books, you probably have seen the adaptation of the film of one of his works. Superlative Guinness certified 34 films based on its stories, King has the most filmed adaptations of any author.Andy Muschietti2017 adaptation 2017Thiswas thebig plan Film based on a king job (and the coarse horror movie of all time!), Winner $ 327,481,748 at the box office.
4 But he hates Stanley Kubrick's adaptation toThe brilliant.
Talk about movie adaptations,Stanley KubrickAdaptationShiny is widely regarded as a classic. However, the king hates him famously. He saidDeadline: "The character of Jack Torrance has no arc in this movie. Absolutely no bow at all. When we first seeJack NicholsonHe is at the office of Mr. Ullman, director of the hotel and you know, then he is crazy as a rat of the house of dependency. All he does is fat. In the book, he is a guy fighting with his mental health and who finally loses it. For me, it's a tragedy. In the movie, there is no tragedy because there is no real change. "
5 Talk about, King wroteShiny Staying at the Stanley Hotel.
In 1974, King and his wife stayed at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. That night, King had a dream. He writes on his website: "I dreamed of my three-year-old son who crosses the corridors, looking at his shoulder, wide eyes, shouting. He was hunted by a fireplace. I woke up with A huge jerks by sweating everywhere, inside an inch of falling bed. I got up, lit a cigarette, sitting in the chair, looking at the rocky window and, at the moment when the cigarette was made, I had the bones of the book firmly installed in my mind. "The Stanley Hotel now includes a 30,000 square feet horror museum.
6 This is the book that inspired King to write horror fiction.
A copy ofLurker in shadows throughH.P. Lover King inspired to write horror fiction. In an interview withBarnes and nobles, King said he had discovered an old copy of the book pocket book among his father's things in the attic (the father of the king left the family when the writer was two years under the pretext of "to buy a pack of cigarettes ".)" I knew I had found at home when I read this book, "said King.
A series of television series of 2014 adaptation of the novel of Stephen King11/22/1963 Includes a nod to the book. Its title is written on the back painting behind the English Lycée Jake Epping teacher in the first episode of the series'.
7 King has banned one of his own books.
King writtenRage In 1965 and published it in 1977. The book concerns a high school student in difficulty who holds the hostage of his school from a point of view. After the book is linked to fourShoots of real life In 1988 and 1996, King had removed him from printing. As he is himself an owner of firearms, the King advocates the control of firearms and, in 2013, published a 25-page trial on the subject entitled "Guns".
In the trial, King writes: "It took more of a slim novel to cause [the shooters] to do what they did ... My book did not break him or turn them into killers; They found something in my book that spoke to them because they were already broken. Yet I sawRage As an accelerant possible, that's why I drew her from the sale. You do not let a gas box where a boy with firefish trends can lay his hand on it. "
8 Carrie was the King's first novel-And he originally started in the trash.
In 1973, King wrote some pages of what would become his first novel,Carrie-Then decided that it was not good and I threw it. Fortunately, his wife, Tabitha, found thePages of the trash of the double torque trailer of the time and convinced it the opposite. "You have something here. I really think you're doing," King quotes telling him in his memoirIn writing. It turns out that she was right. The book sold more than a million copies during its first year. It was also the first adaptation to the King's big screen cinema.
9 King can not remember to writeCujo.
In every year 80, King frequently used alcohol and cocaine. In his bookIn writingHe wrote: "There is a novel,Cujo, that I barely remember to write at all. I'm not saying that with pride or shame, only with a wave sense of grief and loss. I like this book. I would like to remember to enjoy the good parties while I put them on the page. "
10 King writtenThe man who runs In just 10 days.
According toIn writing, King wrote the pound of 304 pagesThe man who runs In just 10 days. The author said he wrote 2,000 to 3,000 words (or about 10 pages) in a few hours. More recently, he says he writes only 1,000 words a day. Whew, we are tired of thinking about that.
11 Its books include countless references to the Ramones.
King is a big fan of the Ramones and you can spot references to the group of his writing. (Most of them are inSemetary pet, What quotes of "Blitzkrieg Bop") in Turn, the group wrote the song "Pet Sematary" for the credible parchment of the adaptation of the King's book film. The song became one of the largest hits of the band band and a concert stamp. In 2003, King wrote the lining notes for the tribute albumWe are a happy family: a tribute to Ramones.
12 King played in a group with other famous writers.
In addition to being abig fan of music, King itself is a musician and played the guitar in the 1992-2014's background remains group consisting of writers Amy Tan, Dave Barry, Mitch Albom, Barbara Kingsolver, Matt Groening and Ridley Pearson , among others. In addition, he and his wife, Tabitha, his own zone area, a company that manages three radio stations in Maine, including 100.3 or "Stephen King's Wkit".
13 As a child, the king attended a horrible accident - but he does not remember that.
In his bookMacabr danceE, king remembers that while he does not have a memory himself, his mother told him that a day he was about four years old, he went to play with a friend and returned from the White House like a sheet, clearly in a state of shock. She discovered that while the boys were playing, her friend had been struck and killed by a freight train. ("Years later, my mother told me that they had picked up the pieces in a wicker basket," he writes. Yikes!)
Some have speculated that the incident could have been inspired for the book of the kingThe body, which has been adapted in the film of 1986Support meAbout four boys who leave to find a corpse alongside a set of railways.
14 These are the two things that terrify the King of Horror.
What scares this man who frightened more than some of us from our mind? Provides that number 13 gives it chills. "When I write, I will never stop working if the page number is 13 or a multiple of 13; I will continue to tap until I receive a security number. I always take the last two steps on my back stairs like a, doing thirteen in twelve. There were, after all, thirteen marches on the English gallope up to about 1900. When I read, I will not stop at page 94, 193 or 382, Since the sums of these numbers add up to 13, "heonce written.
King is also afraid to fly and will often take his bike for book visits. "I travel by plane when I have - I travel by car when I can possibly," he says to theNew York Times. "The difference is that if your car breaks down, you pull in the alley of the break. If you are 40,000 feet and your plane has problems, you die. I feel more control when I drive that when I drive. You hope that the pilot will not have embolism to the brain and dies in command. "
15 King almost retired from writing when he was struck by a van in 1999.
In 1999, King walked in a country road from North Lovell, Maine, when he was struck by a van and threw 14 feet from the road. It wasseverely injured, with a wide recovery on its forehead, broken ribs, hip bones and broken legs and a perforated lung. He suffered five operations and had to wear a metal appliance to the leg for years. In the following, King's lawyer had to buy the van for $ 1,500 to prevent him from being sold on eBay. While recovering again in 2002, kingannounced his retirement writing. The decision to retire was not held, and the 70-year-old published 24 books since.
16 King has more than 17,000 pounds in his personal library and read almost all.
In his briefIn writing, King writes: "If you do not have time to read, you do not have the time (nor the tools) to write. Simple than that." Indeed, King is an incredibly eager reader and says it crosses 70 to 80 pounds a year, especially fiction. Its home library includes more than 17,000 pounds and it claims to have all read, with the exception of some new additions.
17 The Book Review section of a Maine newspaper was about to be distorted until King tweeted about it.
The king is just as prolific as a tweeter since he is a writer. In January 2019, when King discovered that the local mainenewspaper Portland Press Herald cut the book reviews section,he tweeted about this in order to make the change. "The Sunday of Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday will publish local critics and independent of books on Maine, on Maine or written by the authors of Maine. Retweet this if you are from Maine (or even if you do not have are not). Tell the paper do not do that, "he wrote. The paper told King that if his followers bought 100 subscriptions, they could keep the section. They dropped more than doubling their goal.
18 All grass filmmakers can buy King's Stories news fees for $ 1.
Got a dollar? Then you can be the next person to adapt a new story to Stephen King, as long as you do not distribute it for money. If you go to the Stephen King website, you can see a list of new information that is available movie rights, King calls its "dollar babies". There is even aDollar Baby FestivalIn Belgium, where filmmakers can present their films from these contracts.
19 The author is $ 400 million and sold more than 350 million copies of his books.
King is definitely one of the most successful authors in the world, but he is not in it for money, he says. On his website, King answers why he became writer: "The answer to that is quite simple - there was nothing but I was done. I've been made to write stories and I like to write stories. That's why I do it. I really can not imagine doing something else and I can not imagine not doing what I do. "To know more about the richest auto men world, checkHow were the 15 richest men in the world in this way?
20 All his family has a talent to write.
King met his wife, Tabitha, in the university library of the University of Maine and the two married in 1971. Tabitha herself is a writer - She published eight novels and two works of non-fiction - and is one of the children of the couple,Joseph Hillstrom King (He started writing under the name of Joe Hill's pen to win his own reputation). Joe posted four novels, two short-stage collections and a series of comic book books. It even appeared in the opening and closing segments of the king movieGrill! Looking for your next weekend? Try one of the40 readings of most readings of all time.
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