King will mit dem Schreiben aufhören
Das letzte Kapitel in dem Roman "Duma Key" verleitet zur Interpretation, dass King das Schreiben aufhören will:
"How to Draw a Picture (XII)
Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life."
(chronologisch geordnet)
November 2007:
In einem Nachwort in Form eines Briefes in "The Gunslinger Born" schreibt King über die vielen Ideen die er noch hat und nach Möglichkeit auch verwirklichen will.
vom 12/01/05:
Liljas-Library.com reports: "Very BIG news today. In a message to the message board on King's official site someone asked whether there will be any more books by King and this positive response was given by the Moderator: 'Stephen has finished the first draft of a new novel and has decided to publish it, but we don't have a publication date. It's unlikely it will be this year, though."
vom 07/01/05:
* New Stephen King Projects?
Someone asked on the official Stephen King message board what King has been working on lately, and the moderator responded: "Most recently he's been working again on the project with John Mellencamp that had been put on the back burner while he was doing The Dark Tower, Kingdom Hospital and Faithful. He's also written a couple of short stories and a novel."
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From the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly:
EW contributor Stephen King publishes new novel -- The horror author discusses completing the final book in his ''Dark Tower'' series
by Gilbert Cruz
Thirty-four years ago, Stephen King sat down and typed the following line: ''The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.'' As the ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY columnist recalls, ''That's probably the best single line that I ever wrote and maybe it deserved a book. I'm not sure it deserved seven of them.'' Nonetheless, here we are, greeting the publication of Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, ''a whopper'' that King also insists is the end of gunslinger Roland Deschain's saga. At least for now. After all, this is a man who told this magazine two years ago that he would retire after finishing Dark Tower. Now he admits there's a brand-new novel sitting on his shelf: ''I'm looking at it right now and that's where it's going to stay for the time being.'' So, is he retired or not? ''I was deeply sad to finish with these books, and I had a period of real creative depression, to the point where I told people I was going to quit...[but] I can't be held responsible for anything I said in the course of the last two years.'' That, Constant Readers, is a no.
vom 21/09/04:
Ausschnitt der Seite: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/234465p-201376c.html
King to go out after 'Dark'?
By SHERRYL CONNELLY
DAILY NEWS BOOK EDITOR
Stephen King has said he may retire.
The last installment of King's series has been published.
Thirty-four years later, Stephen King has at long last published the seventh and final volume of his magnum opus, "The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower."
Now the question is: Will he bring his career to a close on this triumphant note?
As he said he would?
"The Dark Tower is my uberstory, no question about that," he wrote in the coda to "The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah" earlier this year. "When it's done, I plan to ease back. Maybe retire completely."
Or as he wrote in the author's note to "The Dark Tower": "In a sense there's nothing left to say now that Roland has reached his goal..."
Or as he told an Entertainment Weekly reporter in 2002: "I've killed enough of the world's trees."
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But after a roadside accident in 1999, when King was struck by a van and nearly killed, he made it a priority to finish the three books in what he had always envisioned to be a seven-volume series. He also started making noises that when "The Dark Tower" was done, he was too.
But the publisher of Scribner's, Susan Moldow, reports: "I have even heard him say something to the effect that the reports of his retirement are greatly exaggerated.
"I still don't believe that Stephen King will cease and desist," she says, though she has neither a manuscript in house nor the promise of one.
King, 56, told a British interviewer that specifically what he was retiring from was the business of "book contracts."
Meanwhile, he has another manuscript written, based on an idea that ignited when he came home from the hospital following a bout of pneumonia to find his office cleared, the furniture gone. His wife was merely redecorating.
"It got me thinking about my own death and what would happen afterward," he said.
Sounds like a Stephen King best seller.
Originally published on September 21, 2004
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Das neueste über Kings Pläne aufzuhören:
Susan Moldow, seine Verlegerin bei Scribner, hat gehört wie King eine Geschichte beschreibt die er schreiben will.
vom 24/05/02:
Es ist eine Art Angewohnheit des King of Horror ca. alle drei Jahre in einem Interview etwas zu sagen, das Diskussionen und Gerüchte aufwirft.
Die neuesten Spekulationen ergehen sich darüber, ob King bald in Rente geht.
In einem Interview des Time- Magazine sagte er, man müsse zwischen Ruhestand und Ruhestand unterscheiden. Er könne es sich nicht vorstellen, das Schreiben aufzugeben, aber durchaus, nicht mehr zu veröffentlichen. Er habe ja schließlich schon so viel veröffentlicht, da hätten seine Fans ja wohl genug zu lesen.
Allerdings hat er auch noch einige Projekte am laufen: die letzten zwei Bücher in der Dark-Tower- Serie , eine TV-Serie für ABC, mehrere Bücher und Verfilmungen (mehr siehe unten).
Sein Agent Arthur Greene glaubt nicht daran, dass er aufhören möchte, genausowenig wie seine Verlegerin Susan Moldow und wohl jeder, der sein Buch "On writing" gelesen hat. Denn darin wird klar, dass das Schreiben sein Leben ist.
Wenn man bedenkt, das King das erstemal von Ruhestand gesprochen hat nachdem er "Sara" veröffentlicht hatte (1998), dann dürfen wir uns wohl beruhigt zurücklehnen und davon ausgehen, dass der Meister uns noch einige Jahre mit seinen Werken erfreuen wird.
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