Often times, as I sit and a read a novel by Stephen King two questions constantly plauge me:

1) What kind of a man is he? Meaning, is he one of these egotistical people that has become famous and feels that he is far greater than most people?

2) When he writes, does he fear how his audience will percieve the ending? Meaning, he has taken his audience on a thrill ride of over a thousand pages, the time has come to create an end, and he does but he knows it's not what the audience wants to happen.

There have been times I've gone away from a Stephen King novel hating the ending, absolutey loathing what has happened, and it makes me love his work even more. To me, that's a genius writer. If a person can put words on paper that will suck you into another dimension for hours at a time and make you feel something, than his job is complete. I've just wondered how many hate letters he has recieved over his lifetime from fans that feel they are owed something?

Are any of us as readers owed anything? My answer is no. Stephen King owes us nothing. Stephen King did not twist our arms and say "Read my book!" At our will we checked it out at the library, bought it from a bookstore, or borrowed it from a friend. Stephen King didn't hold a gun to our heads and say "Turn the page!" All Stephen King did is what he was born to do, and that's write.

It really angers me when fans put his books down openly, complain that he ended it wrong, or wrote entirely too long of a book. I guess we are all entitled to our opinions.

There is a part of me that truly admires Stephen King and it's not because he is my favorite writer. I admire him because he is a great writer, a famous writer, a writer that is probably plauged by people everywhere he goes, and through all of it the man does what he loves to do and continues giving us story after story, regardless of how much he know's it might tick people off.

For all of this, I say thank you Mr. King for all of the pleasureable stories you have given me throughout my time. Thank You for keeping me entertained and I even thank you for those few books with the bummer endings. You inspire me to sit down with my pen and paper, write my own twisted tales, and dream not about becoming rich and famous, but about touching just one person with my writing. It was probably what got you started all those years ago and then someone found "Carrie"... Thank You Mr. King for sharing your talent with me, the rest of the world, and not locking yourself into seclusion like J.D. Salinger or only writing one novel like Harper Lee.