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Stephen King, on the nurses at the facility where he was recovering from his accident: “You know, they’d all read Misery, and they worked for an outfit called the Bangor Area Visiting Nurses. These are nurses who go into the home and give home care. And I think one of them told me toward the end of the period, where I needed full-time nursing, that they had all read it, and they had all been called into the office by their superior and told in no uncertain terms, ‘You don’t make any Misery jokes.’ ” (Photo: Scribner) From Stephen King: The Craft of Writing Horror Stories
From the excerpt linked above (my emphasis):
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.
That desk is boss. I’m not sure what is the most awesome: the two (at least) telephones, the mini desktop copier, or the Wang computer that probably holds a just-finished draft of Christine, It, or The Tommyknockers.
No, screw it — the most awesome things are those sneakers.
