Lisa Rogak - Haunted Heart

196 “something you wrote twenty-eight years ago was your best book”: Paris Review, Fall 2006.

196 “different events, personalities, and things that you can flip together”: Writers Dreaming, p. 136.

197 “ ‘I’ve got the idea, now let me out of here’ ”: BBC, An Audience with Stephen King, November 12, 2006.

198 “Let sleeping dogs lie, I say”: Guardian, September 14, 2000.

CHAPTER TWELVE: MISERY

199 “I really enjoyed the process”: Talk of the Nation, February 9, 1999.

200 “generally that works pretty well”: Ibid.

200 “if you whine enough, you do”: Ibid.

200 “I’ve done most of the promotion that they’ve asked me to do”: Ibid.

200 “should have been changed to Story That Lasts a Century ”: San Francisco Chronicle, February 12, 1999.

200 “A lot of people will not let me rest until I finish with Roland”: Ibid.

201 “it would be The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon ”: Weekly Reader Writing magazine, October 2006.

202 “If he hit those rocks, he would have died”: Bangor Daily News, June 21, 1999.

202 “I thought, ‘Oh, boy, I’m in trouble here’ ”: Nightline, November 15, 2007.

202 “I loved all your movies”: Fresh Air, October 10, 2000.

202 “he was still talking and coherent”: Dateline, November 1, 1999.

203 “then it started up again, all different”: Good Housekeeping, September 2001.

203 “after they had intubated me and pumped up my lung”: Fresh Air, October 10, 2000.

203 “Not today”: Dateline, November 1, 1999.

204 “with the exception of my head, which was only concussed”: Ibid.

204 “it was that I had to take them again”: Fresh Air, October 10, 2000.

204 “I’m going to take it”: Ibid.

204 “it put chills in my heart”: Ibid.

205 “It’s almost funny”: On Writing, p. 256.

205 “I’d tell her I couldn’t and to let me stop, and she wouldn’t”: Dateline, November 1, 1999.

206 “I didn’t know if I knew how to do this anymore”: Ibid.

207 “so you just kind of let go”: Ibid.

207 “my brain began inventing pain just to get these painkillers”: Age, November 25, 2006.

207 “that was a very frightening place to be”: Fresh Air, October 10, 2000.

208 “you’re awake nights, you twitch, and then it’s gone”: BBC, An Audience with Stephen King, November 12, 2006.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK

209 “They all wanted to see my leg”: New York Times, August 13, 2000.

210 “because we can reduce each other to helpless laughter”: Tenebres.com, 2000.

210 “It’s just a question of trying to find the time”: Lilja’s Library, January 16, 2007.

210 “an idea of what this market is like now”: Publishers Weekly, March 14, 2000.

210 “but also in terms of length”: Ibid.

210 “it was a way of keeping things fresh”: Paris Review, Fall 2006.

213 “It’s more like ‘I’m taking my leg to New York”: Guardian, September 14, 2000.

213 “The death of a forty-three-year-old man can only be termed untimely”: CNN.com, September 25, 2000.

213 “Facts don’t bother a novelist”: Boston Globe, November 22, 1991.

213 “You’d rather do it than write about it”: Guardian, September 14, 2000.

213 “Is this all you really have to say about the art and craft of writing?”: A Good Read, Maine Public Television, August 2004.

213 “trying to teach women how to behave”: Entertainment Weekly, September 27, 2002.

214 “they take it more seriously”: A Good Read, Maine Public Television, August 2004.

214 “because if I stop, I’ll never start again”: Guardian, September 18, 2004.

214 “Tabby keeps the monsters away”: 60 Minutes, February 16, 1997.

214 “Tabby’s not afraid of him, or anything”: Good Housekeeping, September 2001.

215 “and keeps us from knowing things”: Boston Globe, June 4, 2006.

215 “contemplate some god-awful things in my fiction”: Talk of the Nation, February 9, 1999.

215 “I can always rip it out later”: Feast of Fear, p. 99.

215 “what the consequences were when the man leaves”: Age, November 25, 2006.

215 “and then I would shoot him”: Publishers Weekly, February 10, 1997.

215 “the thought has crossed my mind”: Augusta Chronicle, October 20, 1998.

215 “he just bullies his way into what he wants like a freight train”: Writer’s Digest, June 2007.

216 “I ended my involvement immediately”: Onyx Reviews, May 2006.

216 “and that’s the end of it”: Ibid.

216 “what it means to be a man among other men”: CBS Morning Show, March 20, 2001.

216 “they would rather kill all of us than tell us the truth”: Hollywood’s Stephen King, p. 7.

217 “I found myself pulling back a bit”: Guardian, September 14, 2000.

218 “Nothing did really”: Lilja’s Library, January 16, 2007.

218 “You see little flashes of their style”: Paris Review, Fall 2006.

219 “there might have been an element of that involved”: All Things Considered, March 16, 2005.

219 “So to hell with it”: Portland Press Herald, June 4, 2006.

219 “who’s been following the Red Sox forever”: Ibid.

220 “I’ve become sort of a Red Sox mascot”: All Things Considered, March 16, 2005.

220 “there was no reason not to publish them as soon as possible”: Amazon.com, March 2003.

220 “these books are going to come in fairly rapid succession”: Ibid.

221 “has to come out some other way”: Talk of the Nation, NPR, February 9, 1999.

221 “I’d kick his body into the street and dance on it!”: Castle Rock, December 1987.

221 “I don’t need the money”: Entertainment Weekly, September 27, 2002.

222 “might be his last novel for the year”: Ibid.

222 “I would publish it”: Time, March 24, 2002.

222 “the idea that this guy was going to retire is a laugh”: Time, March 24, 2002.

222 “like my mind and body is trying to scare me back to work”: Age, November 25, 2006.

222 “so I tried to simplify it a little bit”: Amazon.com, March 2003.

222 “all they’re doing is remaking them at this point”: Boston Globe, June 4, 2006.

223 “And he’s a kindred spirit”: A Good Read, Maine Public Television, August 2004.

224 “the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life”: Boston Globe, September 24, 2003.

224 “to a girl who’s not going to be Miss America”: Nightline, November 15, 2007.

224 “there’s still a fair amount of resentment toward that”: Ibid.

224 “I was going to accept it and make my speech”: Age, November 25, 2006.

224 “and got rotten and infected the rest”: Ibid.

225 “The writing was the best part of the day”: Ibid.

225 “She knew I couldn’t argue”: BBC, An Audience with Stephen King, November 12, 2006.

225 “when my mother died of cancer”: Age, November 25, 2006.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE END OF THE WHOLE MESS

226 “the pressure of being a famous guy’s kid”: New York Times, March 18, 2007.

226 “horror stories with few adverbs”: Ibid.