Stephen King talks about accident and finishing Dark Tower novel series

Medium shot of Stephen King giving an interview in a studioÊwearingÊbutton down shirt andÊglasses. Stephen King says And ah a little detour on the great highway of life and i almost punched andÊahhÊI though to myself if your gonna finish these books you better finish them cause until that point id gone along thinking wellÊthere'sÊtime I think the way that we all do we thinkÊthere'sÊtime to finish the things we wanna do we can put them off i came to theÊrealizationÊ when i felt well enough to write again that maybe i cant put this off anymore and ifÊI'mÊgonna do itÊI'mÊgonna sit down and do the whole thing and will divide them out and will worry about how the books are published later on because they are really all one book and this is no news to the people that read the dark tower books there one novel they may run 4000 or 5000 pages but its one story about Rowan the gunÊslingerÊand his quest for the dark tower. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author and film director of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, which have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books. As of 2011, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name RichardÊBachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine.
Medium shot of Stephen King giving an interview in a studioÊwearingÊbutton down shirt andÊglasses. Stephen King says And ah a little detour on the great highway of life and i almost punched andÊahhÊI though to myself if your gonna finish these books you better finish them cause until that point id gone along thinking wellÊthere'sÊtime I think the way that we all do we thinkÊthere'sÊtime to finish the things we wanna do we can put them off i came to theÊrealizationÊ when i felt well enough to write again that maybe i cant put this off anymore and ifÊI'mÊgonna do itÊI'mÊgonna sit down and do the whole thing and will divide them out and will worry about how the books are published later on because they are really all one book and this is no news to the people that read the dark tower books there one novel they may run 4000 or 5000 pages but its one story about Rowan the gunÊslingerÊand his quest for the dark tower. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author and film director of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, which have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books. As of 2011, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name RichardÊBachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine.
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