"I shrank, because I love that guy's books. He looked at me, and this sneer came over his face, and he said, 'Oh, look, it's the lion,' meaning the literary lion," King said in the interview. He had a cane and was wearing a blue suit. I remember going to a literary-guild party around the time of 'The Shining.' Irwin Shaw was sitting in a corner, very gouty and very flushed. "When I started, I was seen as a genre writer, and that's pretty much what I was. I kept my head down and kept doing the best stuff that I could."Īn insult by playwright and author Irwin Shaw was also discouraging to hear, King said. "I thought, Oh, it's so dispiriting when you work as hard as you can and you see something like that. I kept my mouth shut. There was a caricature of me eating money that was flowing from my typewriter," King told The New York Times Magazine. "I still remember in The Village Voice somebody did a long, debunking piece about my writing. (He claimed in a 2014 Rolling Stone interview that being insulted by critics like Bloom doesn't bother him because their opinions are "elitist." However, he said that some painful jabs at his professionalism do hurt.) In a recent interview with The New York Times Magazine, the author shared his strategy for dealing with criticism: Just keep on writing. That's just one example of the many times King's writing chops was criticized.
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