“Charlie McGee is a superhero,” says StephenKing. “Carrie is an anti-hero; she's just this sad creature…”
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"I did a lot of LSD in college ... I was also in full don't-trust-the-government mode when I wrote that book."Firestarter you say, “to my daughter Naomi, who brightens up everything and helped me to understand—as much as any man can—what it is to be a young, intelligent girl approaching the age of 10. She's not Charlie, but she helped me to help Charlie be herself.” You'veYou know, that's a mean way to put it, but there's some truth to it.
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