![]() "And suddenly, you wake up in a hospital bed and you've got a phenyltol patch on your arm and you're jacked up on morphine and you've got all these different medications. ![]() And I was able to jettison almost all of those substances out of my life. ![]() Boy, if it would change your consciousness, I was all for that. I was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. "If I thought anything was unfair about what had happened to me, it was that after struggling and winning a battle to get off all sorts and drugs and alcohol - have a problem with beer and cocaine I was an addictive personality, period. I'll stop at 55.' So I do have some new experiences, and I probably will write some other things and go on for a while." Which do you choose?' And immediately I would say, 'Give me the boring life. "Given a choice, if somebody had walked up to me and said, 'Well, Steve, you can continue to live the same old, boring, healthy life and you won't have any real, new experiences and you can retire at 55, or you can go for the car accident: You can get hit by the van and put in the hospital, and you'll get some new experiences and you can write until you're 60. "Obviously, it has given me some new things to write about and some new experiences to put in stories, and I've already begun that procedure," he explained. ![]() In a 2000 interview on Fresh Air, King described his life-changing accident to Terry Gross but said it didn't change the way he approached his writing. The book was both a reflection on his craft and his thoughts about the accident that required months of rehabilitation to repair his broken bones. While recovering from his injuries, King worked on a book called On Writing. A driver had left the highway and struck King as he strode along the gravel shoulder of Route 5 in Maine. In the summer of 1999, writer Stephen King was nearly killed while taking his daily walk. On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft ![]()
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