(July 13, 2016 at 5:06 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: He isn't necessarily putting himself in his stories, it might just be a type of character he enjoys writing about.
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Well - most of King's protagonists are teachers, and/or alcoholic, burned out writers. We know he used to work as a teacher, while publishing his early work. I have no idea, what could have inspired the rest...

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw