Stephen King - Introduction

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INTRODUCTION

I am often given the big smiling handshake at parties (which I avoid attending whenever possible) by someone

who then, with an air of gleeful conspiracy, will say, 'You know, I've always wanted to write.' I used to try to be

polite.

These days I reply with the same jubilant excitement: 'You know, I've always wanted to be a brain surgeon.'

They look puzzled. It doesn't matter. There are a lot of puzzled people wandering around lately.

If you want to write, you write.

The only way to learn to write is by writing. And that would not be a useful approach to brain surgery.

Stephen King always wanted to write and he writes.

So he wrote Carrie and 'Salem's Lot and The Shining, and the good short stories you can read in this book and a

stupendous number of other stories and books and fragments and poems and essays and other unclassifiable

things, most of them too wretched to ever publish.

Because that is the way it is done.

Because there is no other way to do it. Not one other way

Compulsive diligence is almost enough. But not quite. You have to have a taste for words. Gluttony. You have to

want to roll in them. You have to read millions of them written by other people.

You read everything with grinding envy or a weary contempt.

You save the most contempt for the people who conceal ineptitude with long words, Germanic sentence

structure, obtrusive symbols, and no sense of story, pace, or character.

Then you have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every

person we can ever meet.

Okay, then. Stupendous diligence, plus word-love, plus empathy, and out of that can come, painfully, some

objectivity.

Never total objectivity.

At this frangible moment in time I am typing these words on my blue machine, seven lines down from the top of

my page two of this introduction, knowing clearly the flavour and meaning I am hunting for, but not at all certain

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