Stephen King

“I wanted to write about how weak people can be strong,” King says, speaking by phone from his home in Bangor, Me. “We’re each on our own island, and at the same time sometimes we can yell to each other and get together, and there is that sense of community and empathy. I love that. I love that in stories.”

“It never really works in a homily,” he adds. “It sounds saccharine sweet if you just say, ‘friends make things better,’ but when you tell a story, people understand. Everybody wants to have a friend because this is basically a lonely business, life.”

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