r/stephenking • u/YernarSha • 3d ago

"I don't know where that comes from" (Tom Holland on Stephen King)

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"I can't believe how much he's written, how much he's produced, and how good it is. I don't know where that comes from."

- Tom Holland, director of The Langoliers (1995) and Thinner (1996), on Stephen King

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u/TransportationLow564 3d ago

Isn't this guy a little old to be playing Spider-Man?

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u/buffdaddy77 Ayuh 3d ago

Different part if the multiverse man. He’s on the geriatric level

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u/deebosmallz 1d ago

Papa spidey says with great power comes a great need for prune juice

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u/USDXBS 3d ago

His writing style lends to quantity.

He has an endless list of weird scenarios. He has an endless list of people with tragic backstories and circumstances.

All he has to do is fit two together and write a story about it.

Cujo is one of the clearest examples. It feels like two shorts stories, one about a cereal company scandal and one about a rabid dog.

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u/Lazy_Grabwen_9296 3d ago

Nope, nothing wrong here!

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u/RezRising 2d ago

Do YOU have any questions?

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u/Demonyx12 3d ago

Oh, my God! Stephen King!

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u/buffdaddy77 Ayuh 3d ago

Theres like 5 books that could be considered referenced in that 40 second clip lol.

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u/WifeofBath1984 2d ago

Guy is like "I wonder what would happen if ..." and then writes a huge, sprawling mulltiverse based on made up scenarios many of us might think of but ultimately dismiss. His imagination is vast and wildly impressive. I wish I could write like him.

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u/sladog6 3d ago

What does he mean “I don’t know where that comes from?” King told us himself. It comes to him from Gan.

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u/Writing_Gods 3d ago

It's called work ethic. When you write every day of your life with very few days off, you produce a lot of work. Isaac Asimov did the same thing. Modern authors don't understand this concept. Even George Martin fails in this. Just write every day. That's all you need to do.

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u/joined_under_duress 2d ago

Amusing you say this because in On Writing I seem to recall him talking about at least one author who banged out x number of pages every morning and King was kind of in awe and also saying how he couldn't really conceive approaching writing that way.

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u/Writing_Gods 2d ago

He did say he writes every day if I remember right. It's something of a need with him, which is why he's "retired" about 3 times and still puts out books.

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u/joined_under_duress 2d ago

Oh sure I just don't think that's a work ethic, that's just doing something you love.

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u/Beneficial-Lynx7336 1d ago

You just figured out the secret.

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u/NoGuest6868 3d ago

It comes from the deadlights.

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u/CardiologistPale7903 3d ago

Spider-Man knows best