Stephen King interview (1993) 

Hes Brilliant! Thanks for the entertainment and thank you also for the acting work on Castle Rock!!!

I know Stephen King did not direct "Under The Dome" wrote the book, but I am currently watching the series👍. Matter of fact, Stephen appeared in Season 2 as one of the extras.

Another of America’s great writers who’s pop culture popularity has left him criminally underrated as a literary genius. Him, Raymond Chandler and Rod Serling; all ingrained into the psyche of Americana now . . . But, people dismiss their stuff as, “trashy,” or just too, “pop-culture,” for them, without really seeing the cleverness, the eloquence and genius of their creations

@@iwillelude9751 : He does that a lot. His screen adaptations are very hit and miss; some great some awful, but none do justice to his excellent prose. “As he inhaled the crazy perfume of scorched blood and burning fox fur, his anger only deepened . . . And he was loving every moment.” Who could come up with that? 😁👍

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Henrik Ekberg what an amazing quote!

That's from the opening of IT.

Good fiction is the subconscious truth

Stephen King is an excellent writer. He is the only writer that's managed to actually scare me in his writing what's the point of horror if it doesn't scare you I get so disappointed if I read something or watch something that's supposed to be scary and it's not I walk away disappointed Stephen King never disappoints.

This hit hard.

Soon as I heard that I scrolled down for the winner that would comment about it... +1 haha

I laughed at that, the interviewer was still fake-laughing about something else when he said it

@@kreipflagra3116 Charlie Rose

Rose didn't catch it.

Shut up dummy

@Commander Keen to me it does not matter if they are good. I love Stephen King as writer. The way he writes makes me want to read his other books.

@Commander Keen Have you read them all to voice a valid opinion? I'd say Thinner and The Tommy Knockers are not great concepts, but as Aly Topor says in other words, it's King's voice as an author that makes all his stories enjoyable.

Aly Topor Just Monika

I've read em all, and while I dont love every one of them-insomnia, rose madder- I always come back for the voice. He tells a great story, even when the story isn't great. As for it being only for the money- get a grip, he hasn't needed the money in years, so clearly not

That is interesting indeed. The fact that he wrote less when he started, but he seemed much more confident and overall younger. Obviously time passes by and even genius minds have their respective creative twilights. By this I mean, maybe he started writing a lot more, but he began to fault compared to his brillant first novels like Carrie, Tommyknockers, It, Pet Sematary, and other jewels. But despite all this, I love Stephen King, and I cant thank hin enough for giving me a renewed hope for american literature when I thought I won't find any more writers to enjoy due to the modern crap we have to go through nowadays

Except he doesn't drink anymore

Root beer maybe 😏 sobriety looks good on him! Such a beautiful soul.

Total fucking stud he is

I love his books

@@thenewyorkcitizen I never started drinking. It's just the turn of phrase common for a couple of guys hanging out and shooting the shit.

Joe Smith totally agree. An interviewers dream.

Joe Smith yes. He has a way with words...

Yes he is very articulate

+Jose Cruz Parker - Not "duh", there is a huge difference between verbal communication and written communication. SK even says in this interview that he's better at writing than speaking.

@José Cruz Parker most writers are introverts and cannot express themselves verbally as well as they can through textual based communication.

Fcking pervert

Ugly Rockstar takes one to know one buddy

Kind of like Satan?

Totally true!

I tried several times to read a book of his , never got through more than ten pages. Barker, Herbert, many other far better writers.

@@davidian2.024 lol. After 10 pages you could only just barely begin to get a feel for style, but would have no idea of the substance or the adventure the author takes you on. You basically said “I’ve read essentially nothing he’s written but I’m just going to name some random authors and say they’re better. What a pointless comment lol. Not a lot of people say he’s the greatest actual writer, even himself. But he tells some damn good stories.He’s probably not one of the greats writers, even if our time, but he’s certainly one of the best storytellers and that’s why he’s so famous.

Without a doubt he’s a legend. And I hate horror. But I’m a writer and can appreciate his genius.

@@davidian2.024 James Herbert is like a bad British cover version of King. And i say that as a big fan of both.

Dudes a stiff.

Kind of like Satan?

big t I think the deep detail is what makes his writing so amazing and gripping, it paints a believable reality and you can see everything in your minds eye. I think a lot of authors gloss over details, to speed the story along but that is what gives it real meat

Sunshine Luke EXACTLY !! He taps into your mind perfectly !!!

No, he's the greatest of his genre. There can be no question. He wrote the Green Mile and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption .. and they're two of people's favorite films.

Nautilus1972 YES !! BOTH great movies and great reads !!👍👍

@@Nautilus1972 I love many of his books and the resulting movies! But my favorite is Dolores Claiborne.

And he got away with it. The perfect criminal.

wooden shelf hahaha I laughed my butt off at that as well

😂

@@lukeskywalker6809So The Dark Half was about Stephen King

And I've not finished yet !

I thought the opposite

What's the actual joke here? I don't get it

@@gerhitchman If u didn't realize it yet he's saying his relatives probably suddenly became unable to survive without his handouts of $ after he became rich. Most pro athletes are brought down to bankruptcy after their career ends from hangers on and family that beg for $ for a living.

The overwhelming majority of jobs in Maine for regular people coming out of high school are strictly minimum wage with no opportunity for advancement. And you may wonder why don't people just leave? The military is really the only way out if your family does not have money to give you a good start. otherwise it costs a tremendous amount of money to move out of state and there's no guarantee that you will be successful if you do so a lot of people stay because they don't know where else to go. it's not that is relatives are probably lazy it's that they are probably typical mainers that do work hard but are stuck in dead-end jobs that pay nothing. Back when we had paper mills maybe we were doing okay but the fishing industry is our big industry and unless you have family or someone very close to you that's a captain the best you're ever going to be is a sternman the only way that you can really be a captain is if you are very well connected it's very hard to get a lobster boat license there's a lot of cronyism in that too. It's not like other places where you can get a job in a company and advance there's a few companies like that down in Portland and stuff like that but the rest of the state there's nothing but dead-end jobs year-round and seasonally you do have well paying jobs on the boats as a sternman or third man but the catch is is that that season is so short-lived it doesn't really help you much financially you would still need to take a job at a convenience store or a fast food joint just to pay your bills through the year and the rents here are crazy I live in a single wide trailer in a trailer park in the middle of my town my rent is $895 a month for this single wide and nothing is included and the heating oil is insane it costs nearly $1,000 to fill up the tank and that only gets me through maybe 2/3 of the winter.

@Stafford Venema sorry not reading all of that, the guy asked why Mr. Kings line was funny to people and i did. I swear people on the internet get off to telling people they're wrong somehow.

And The Long Walk would fit wonderfully into this dark, teen sci-fi movie franchise thing that's going on. It would be better, because teenagers want something truthful and dark and The Long Walk was so refreshingly pessimistic.

Michael Nell I'm a teenager and I don't really want something truthful.

Michael Nell teens nowadays wouldn’t understand the awesomeness of the stand. kids just want stupid jumpscares with romance and stupid action.

@@jedijoey3 I am a teen,and,I love the stand

cubsfan 154e56544 i know bud, i didn’t mean all teens

Pretty much the only one I've seen.

Goran Zaprianov - Songs would be better if the annoying cunt interviewer would let stephen speak and stop interrupting, how the fuck does he think we wanna hear him over Stephen?

@@hl8808 “The Texas Tower.” “No. Stfu, idiot.”

@@r4h4al GET TO WORK WATCHING THE REST & LEARN

Maybe yours is overrated

So, did you wrote that book?

He was not at all the first to say this, of course, if you are a collector of quotes, you will have heard something similar long before King saying it.

It's a opening message by King in the book IT, he says "Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists."

He does not say that in this interview....

Keeping a notebook is the best way to Immortalize terrible ideas! -Stephen King

Eyes wide shut ass lapdogs #ThesePeopleAreSick

schmidt640 I’ve read it a couple of times and will read it again 😃🇦🇺

'i have nightmares and dreamscapes and agree trad it alot was even reading it today at library read so many times the cover is off

Oh, Nightmares and Dreamscapes. "Suffer the Little Children," "My Pretty Pony," "The Night Flier," "Crouch End," "Umney's Last Case," "The Doctor's Case." All of them soooooo gooooood. Nothing can ever match (for me, at least) the viscerally horrifying stories in Night Shift, but most all of the tales in N&D come closer than anything.

No. He isn't underrated, he most succesfully writers with HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, but King is best own kinda way but i keep best who write gothic horror novels Edgar Allan Poe, also HP Lovecraft's is great but i m not so big lovecraft fan, i like more Edgar Allan Poe.

Commas exist.

I agree, he doesn't do many interviews, so for him to do one with Charlie shows how much mutual respect there is here. Great interview. Huge King fan for most of my life

How is he underrated? Movies like The Shining, Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile are considered one of the best movies of all time. He's the most successful writer of novels in Hollywood. And as a writer he sold more than 300 million books and considered one of the best writers of all time.

King is in the top five most wealthy authors of all time. Underrated is not a word that should be used to describe him.

Or his shopping list....My fave author EVER!

TheImmortalArcher jesus, if you want something you’d be too scared to finish. The laundry list is like his 80’s 90’s books tenfold

I'd buy his laundry

She dies in the end.

TheImmortalArcher 😂… EXACTLY !!!

Such a great comment. 100% agree 💯 with you. King is enciclopedia of this civilization ❤ I also talked with him through his books. You're not alone ❤

I love your comment. It literally feels like he’s reading along with me while I’m in one of his novels. He’s so beautifully personal

Wasn't Rose fired for sexual harassment? Guess he didn't listen to them either.

That style of conversation is a very “east coast” kind of interaction (I’m from the east coast, BTW). When two people are excited about a subject it becomes kind of a wrestling match to exchange ideas and you almost feed the other person’s contribution rather than “interrupt”. It’s a very difficult style to unlearn 🥴

@@twist7799 bitch ass

Garbage interviewer

@@hobbyhopper3143 Smart observation.

It's the cover image right?

Yep, with the scarecrow and an empty highway road at night.

These days it mesmerises me, but like you, as a kid it freaked me out.

***** Learn basic reading comprehension little bitch..

Gotta love those foreign exchange students eh? =p

Connor Wilcox interesting because King has stated that he was actually writing himself as Jack Torrence but didn’t realize it at the time.

@Derek McCumber I agree. i hated the movie. jack was already crazy when they arrived at the hotel. movie just glanced over his abuse of danny in the past. from bits of what i have read about king, much of jack is autobiographical, esp. drinking,

When I first read It as a teen, when it came out, it blew my mind. Last year I started re-reading through all his novels again and while its still good it certainly didn't blow me away. I wouldn't put " It " in his top 20...massively bloated and needed at least 400 pages cut...and I love the stand which is heftier so don't put its failing down to it being too long. It - a good novel but massively over rated.

It should have been longer in my opinion, one of those books I couldn't wait to jump into again

To say you are , "reaching," is an understatement.

@@trissloan2340 it goes without saying, our generational gap may be coming into play lol. I dont need to know your age to infer your resistance is the same as most ideologues, and probably because, your closer to Kings age than I am. Thus, to feel what I, and 80 other people do, you had to be there lol, meaning, you had to be a child in the 90s. It must be hard knowing King is a contemporary who created a ubiquitous household name in the same time you have lived, and had a chance to create your own. It's all love, though.

I liked the recent movie better than the book, much better ending

William Sauer YES he IS !!👍👍

@Bananasplit Films Drugs Darling, drugs...

@@christar9527 This is just because of one of scene from It.

@@fr7nkyph7llyj7ne5 what

He is inspiring

That's called a look of someone who is listening. Rose was leading into the next question and King had further thoughts on the original point, which is why he cut him off. It's because he had to get the thought out, it isn't about these guys "rudely interrupting". These guys are just talking. Theres obviously no hard feelings at all.

The camera man did him dirty

He's been severely myopic since childhood.

He must have exceptional eyesight to see through them.

He uses them to see the future

big glasses for a big Man

@Learning how to see I severely doubt it.

hetaes right!?

Yes, and it seems that they (most interviewers) cut in, when the guest is saying the most profound things!

I hate how charlie kept doing that 😡

Brilliant novel.

Very sad what happen to your aunt. 😭😭

@@miriamcarrasco5999 It is, she described the whole day to me and is the most unimaginably painfull story which you will ever hear.. she is writing a book... she is a special person, she worked as a carer for special needs children and carer for old people.. she went on to have more children after this tragedy, another daughter and another son who gave her her first grandaughter a few months ago named Alice 😊 xxx

Yes, "deffinatly" lol

When I was younger,I used to dream with his books.With time,I passed to fill notebooks with stories based in his literature.I published one and keep dreaming in publish my first book of short stories.Stephen King forever will be a great master of writing and basis for the coming of a lot of new writers.Congratulations to him.

No doubt about it.

He’s not the greatest of our time, he’s one of the greatest of all time

@@backslash75 Meh; he is the greatest imho; who else are you thinking about?

filmmistaker 😂😂😂

I my self have reread the DT at least 3 times sequentially and listened to it on audio book at least 5 or 6 times one of my all time fav series always still finding new things within the universe and when I watch other movies I see the link ups and have to say OHHH

Long days and pleasant nights to you

And may you have twice as many sai

Oy!!!

Christopher Tudor I love Charles Dickens and have read almost all of his books 😃💜🇦🇺

Except his endings are rather lackluster, but damn can he scare!

He's one of a kind

Read the shining last week, I'm currently reading Dr sleep and I loved the shining but in my opinion Dr sleep has 1 up'd it.

The way he expressed his love for his kids. He has to be a great person.

Okay Wikipedia…. 😂😂😂

that's. true. uin

It’s very soothing. Try checking out On Writing in audiobook format. It’s his treatise on writing and he reads it aloud. Very good one. :)

Bill Main exactly why I have it! ❤️

You like lisps?

I love listening to audiobooks narrated by the man himself.

Could listen to King speak for hours.

He didn't even talk about his process. I wish he had. I kept waiting for it.

No.

Clearly Mike Meyers should play him.

Or Stephen King could play Stephen King in a movie

no.....no

Jacob McMahan wahhh they said mean things about daddy Trump, therefore they’re clearly mentally deranged!

Stephen King does not make movies. He writes.

@@brianmelendy9844 no he may not but those movies op references would not exist without Kings work. No reason for you to discredit that.

U should really indulge in his works👌👌

The movie came out in 1994 but the story was published in 1982 apart of the different seasons novella collection

Awesome

@@dietwater4620 Exactly. The novella is called 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Hope Springs Eternal)' and it's the first story in the four-story-novella-collection 'Different Seasons'.

It was with The Body which would become Stand by Me (1986)

Nautilus1972 no one else can write a novel that long and still be a page turner . Unrivaled literary genius as far as I’m concerned.

Lol you're right.

It's called being involved, you know, like a conversation and not just cold questions.

+Auto Focus it's called rude if the guys in the middle of answering him

Ethan Thompson You must not talk to people much. You're trolling youtube videos. That explains it.

+Auto Focus I do. that's a conversation. this is supposed to be an interview.

But horror is the genre what made him

@@Eat_Your_Life Carrie, Salem's Lot and the Shining are the books that cemented him. so that very true

100 years from now, Patterson, Roberts, Brown, to name a few (etal of the popular novelists of the day) they will but be footnotes... Stephen King will be remembered because his great stories were of great literary import

To be fair: Charlie had a lot of questions to cover and finite time. It's understandable that he can't let Mr. King ramble very much, to go off on tangents. And King seems quite the rambler; shame this wasn't two hours!

He is the Poe of our time.

I think King has long surpassed Poe

Omg no. Stop. No one compares to Poe. Poe is a God.

It's plausible that in 100 years, people gathered around campfires amidst the wreckage of our fallen civilization will retell half-remembered versions of a few of their stories.

i'm not sure about that. bc my teacher in high school said he's not one of the best authors of all time. also in this video king said he's not going to be respected enough in his lifetime and probably not after he dies.

Nice

carrie was the third book i read but it kind of felt like the beggining of the obsession

Cujo was my first Stephen King book I've read

Dean koontz with the exception of the outsider is kinda like the discount Stephen king 😬

@@alegonzalez350 Weirdly enough, I read elevation first and wanted to try a full length novel because it just seemed really well written and was enjoyable. I read The Outsider next and that started the obsession. Carrie was the third book I read and remains my favorite so far.

He was quoted as calling Clive Barker "the future of horror".