Fantastic hosting by Moira and really insightful responses from Stephen King. Both of them were just so genuine. Brilliant event - thank you.

I think it's wonderful how King has the ability to turn what begins as an 'interview' into a story! Just sit back and enjoy how he makes every answer into a story-telling event instead ! So interesting and amazing !

Very interesting talk! I only just found this. Glad it was posted

Love King! Can't wait for Billy Summers!

This was such a nice surprise find. Loved it. Thank you.

@FriendsCHML

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!!!

I read Salem's Lot ages ago, but great to hear Steve King read it now, particularly after his comment, 'not bad for a 25-year-old'. I'm listening to it, thinking: wow, he wrote that when he was twenty-five?

@FriendsCHML

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment!

Thanks a lot. A wonderful, matter of fact interaction 🙏

I find it amazing he remembers what he reads and write!

Thank you for posting this! I enjoyed this very much.

What a great evening I am catching on ! I loved the first question. Places are so important. I transposed all the monsters of Maine where I live in France, in Alsace. Many boogie men here too.

I can't thank Moira and the Friends of Hobbs Library for this magnificent event and for something I won't forget in my lifetime: you choose my question and Stephen King said to me "Happy Birthday". It's something that I'll carry with me all my life :) Thank you! Very, very much!

@FriendsCHML

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!!!

Thank you Moira and Friends of Hobbs Library for making this wonderful conversation available to everone across the globe! Greetings from Norway.

I dont understand why this has just 180 views and only 6 likes :D Greetings from Mexico, thank you for that great hour with Stephen :) When it comes to Salem's Lot I was always thinking why they have waited so long, why even went to that basement... Why not to burn the house down, in a day time?.. Really bothered me :D Still - fantastic read. I dont think Stephen will ever read this but if by some weird coincidence you do - thank you for all the great adventures I could live through your books!

@FriendsCHML

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Verschlimmbesserung

2 жыл бұрын

Because it has the lady in the thumbnail and most go by the picture first and then the title. People gloss over it without knowing it's a conversation with Stephen King.

Thank you so much for this interview 😊

@FriendsCHML

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

As always, thanks

Love this. 💕

Oh wow these were such great questions. Thanks for posting this.

His wife was a writer. Both of them wrote this in their own novels "even a broken clock is right twice a day."

Thank you so much for sharing

Fantastic. Mr King read one of my favourite passages of any of his books, the evocation of the town and its inhabitants and how it knows darkness and the darkness is part of it is just sheer brilliance. I did not grow up in a small farming town in Maine but even then that passage speaks to me. Thank you for this.

@FriendsCHML

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Awesome... Thank you for this 😊👍

@FriendsCHML

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Stephen King's fan from India. Thanks a lot for this amazing session ☺️

@FriendsCHML

3 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks so much for posting!!

@FriendsCHML

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Stephen goes to grade schools and helps students with their writing. Keep up the good work!

@jimjoe9945

2 жыл бұрын

Would you want grade school kids reading his books?

@cameronm6116

Жыл бұрын

@@jimjoe9945 Why delay the inevitable?

@jimjoe9945

Жыл бұрын

@@cameronm6116 I used to love Stephen King. The darkness. Now I love the light. Jesus ( God incarnate). John 3:16. The simple gospel ( the good news). No man made religions required.

@cameronm6116

Жыл бұрын

@@jimjoe9945 Your proclaimed faith has naught to do with your afore comment, weirdo.

This was just wonderful!! Thank you SK for your time and so much for your candor and authenticity. You have been my favorite writer since I read The Shining so many years ago (drugstore paperback bookshelf, shiny silver cover, paid for with my bottle return nickels saved up). Salem’s Lot made me afraid of vampires; I hid under the covers because I was afraid a levitating child would be at my apartment window… "You bitch you killed me” from The Shining and Pet Semetery… So friggin scary, I haven’t reread it for years. You have a knack of creating characters that are human and relatable, even the inhuman ones, and the skill of creating words that make them REAL for us readers. I can’t get enough and thank whoever/whatever is out there that you are prolific as well. Dare I say it? No. There is no number one fan. We are all fans, because you are able to express HUMANITY and our deepest fears in words (good and evil), and entertain us at the same time! Keep on truckin'

@caveman3021

2 жыл бұрын

I had the same copy of The Shining! I agree with what you say, as I've always told people that what makes Stephen King so popular is that his characters are real, and we as readers care what happens to them. Not like in Friday the 13th movies where if Jason kills a teenager we're more apt to say "I'm glad he killed them first...he/she was getting on my nerves" lol

GREAT interview! So many good questions. Thank you so much for doing this!

@FriendsCHML

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great questions! I really loved this. I am very thankful. My own question is, (if anybody has heard something) will there ever be a prequel or sequel to "It".

Can these videos be louder?? I have volume up completely & barely can hear it. You can always turn it down.. but can't go higher.

🤗

Mort Rainey, “ The Secret Window “ prequel please 🤍

😊

To the dark tower came . . .

Oh' I would've loved to had been a part of this! With all the short-story's Stephen King has written I can't but wonder if the man has any interest in Creepy Pastas. I did notice that his book 'End of Watch' featured something that acted allot like that Pokemon: Lavender Town Syndrome thing.

"We should all be feminists", Chimamanda dixit. Read her book by the same name, by the way (it's a short one).

For someone who writes what he writes, I find it hard to believe that he believes what the government says.

If I could ask Stephen I would ask him for his definition of the word evil.

Why are there 3 Stephen kings in the dark tower illustration?

@ikward2217

2 жыл бұрын

read it! it’ll explain itself it’s actually pretty clever :)

My comment was deleted? My Facebook group gave a lot of donations and had many people sign up for the live stream. I was just saying HI to them for coming here. Sheesh.... This is a great interview.

@FriendsCHML

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know why or how your other comment was deleted. Sorry about that. I'm still new to learning how youtube works, but will figure it out! Glad you liked the interview.

@dangarcia9831

3 жыл бұрын

@@FriendsCHML fair enough. Sorry. Our group is 80K King fans, so we were very happy to hear of this! Thank you for sharing...

@FriendsCHML

3 жыл бұрын

@@dangarcia9831 You are welcome. Thank you for your support of the library and Maine authors!!!

Hmm…he uses the phrase “not for sissies” unironically.

If he could just keep his political beliefs out of his stories..... It is so jarring..! I am a long time reader of his work, but it is getting old...