How Did Stephen King Influence His Writing

Stephen King’s personal experiences, utilization of drugs and alcohol, as well as his fatherless childhood drastically influenced the way he wrote his books and writings. In some of

King’s books, the words on the pages aren’t merely an isolating factor of his helplessness; but a visual representation of the drinking and his abundant intake of stimulant drugs as he wrote.

King’s books depict and portray his personal experiences, plus some of his imagination, to create his books. In my sources, King verbalizes about growing up without a father figure, his battle with drinking and doing cocaine as a writer, as well as some of the times in his life that had an influence on how he wrote his books. King’s books are mostly influenced by his abandonment

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Stephen King’s drug use and his drinking problem influenced and altered how he wrote his books. In another interview, “Stephen King: Nighline’s Interview With Stephen King”, with

Nightline, Stephen King speaks about some of his personal life stories and how they unquestionably contrived how he wrote some of his books. King has a very ingenious imagination as a writer, and he regularly adds some imagination to his personal experiences and uses those stories in his books. “So I was in the market one day, and uh, I was shopping, and I looked toward the front, and I saw the whole front of the market was plate glass. And what I thought of when I saw those big plate glass windows was, "What if giant bugs started to fly into the glass" (Laughs)” (ABC Nightline). This quote defines and displays his ingenuity to use his imagination and use some of his personal experiences to shift them into ideas for his books. For example, King talks about a story that his mother told him as a child that he used to write about in one of his books. “...a woman had swum out, and the undertow had taken her ... no, not

On the whole, King insinuates to be influenced by his personal experiences which he integrates within his books.

“Star-Studded Addictions: Stephen King” specifically talks about Stephen King’s addictions as a writer. They acknowledge that during his active addiction, he wrote some of his worst alcohol-induced impulses into his characters, like Jack Torrance of the Shining. King furthermore admitted to wanting to grab and hit his children when he was drunk. Moreover, when some of King’s books were made into movies, he found himself at Hollywood parties, where he was introduced to cocaine. He began abusing the drug along with his ongoing alcohol addiction. He would use any substance that came his direction. He didn’t just have an addiction with drinking and cocaine, but he transformed into an addictive personality. “I didn’t just have a problem with beer and cocaine,” he said. “I was an addictive personality, period. I was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day; I loved Listerine; I loved NyQuil; you name it. If it would change your consciousness, I was all for it” (Star-Studded Addictions). During this time, when he was addicted to everything, his books started to change for the worse. He even avowed that