Top 25 Owen King Quotes

I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.

I’m a very liberal person.

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

One corollary of the wretchedness of the second trilogy of ‘Star Wars‘ films has been the final, demented sanctification of the first trilogy of films.

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.

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.

I do try to entertain.

I think I always wanna write comedy because that’s what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that’s what I want to reproduce.

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

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

My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down time, and I got to drive tractor, so it was pretty good gig. I’ve also taught creative writing, dabbled in reviewing and journalism, and toiled as a screenwriter.

I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.

It’s not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it’s more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic.

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

My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They’re all precious to me.

I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven‘t read my work before, to get a new perspective.

It’s hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time.

Who wouldn’t be depressed living in a society that can’t agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?

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

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 find that I’m extremely unattracted to anything that’s humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn’t ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.

I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.

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.

My father has been a major force in the popular culture for a long, long time. He’s a fascinating person.

I think the model that I look at is someone like Jakob Dylan, whose dad is obviously every bit if not more famous than mine. He’s a guy who sought to build a career on his own, doing something that’s a little bit different than what his father does.