Top 25 Owen King Quotes

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.

I was pretty naive about how hard it would be to get out from under the family name. Not that I’m complaining.

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.

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

Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally really great, though not all the time, and that’s all part of it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Stephen King’s ‘Mr. Mercedes’ is not a conventional horror novel. No ghosts, no vampires, no prune-faced escapees of the graveyard.

I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’m a very liberal person.

I grew up watching Cinemax, the late-night Cinemax of the ’80s and early ’90s.