Quotes from Owen King

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

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.

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

Steve Buscemi is the little black dress of cinema, appropriate for any occasion.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

I do try to entertain.

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

I'm a very liberal person.

To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.

Only monsters would harm a cat.