Too horrible to live.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Is it true the only reason you finally publishedPet Sematarywas to settle a book contract?
STEPHEN KING:That’s what happened!
Credit: Anthony Breznican
That’s the reason I published the book.
Otherwise, it would still be in a drawer somewhere.
How did all that go down?
That would’ve been late ’70s, right?
But the money piled up.
That’s a lot of best-sellers.
And [lawyer and agent] Arthur [B.
And by then I was making a lot of money!
I was thinking, “Well, Doubleday can go f' themselves,” you know?
I don’t even want to go there.
They used me very badly.
And they’ll have to pay taxes on money that you haven’t gotten."
But they have to break the investment fund."
And that’s what unleashedPet Semataryon the world.
