“通俗”與“嚴肅”之間的文學戰(zhàn)爭；史蒂芬·金多元富饒、平易近人的寫作風格。

As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read that scripture the way those holy rollers on TV read the Book of Revolution. They were the victims of judges with hearts of stone and balls to match, or incompetent lawyers, or police frame-ups, or bad luck. They read the scripture, but you can see a different scripture in their faces. Most cons are a low sort, no good to themselves? or anyone else, and their worst luck was that their mothers carried them to term.

Red心聲：

Have I rehabilitated myself, you ask? I don’t even know what that word means, at least as far as prisons and corrections go. I think it’s a politician’s word. It may have some other meaning, and it may be that I will have a chance to find out , but that is the future... Enough hate eventually piled up to cause me to do what I did. Given a second chance I would not do it again. But I’m not sure that means I am rehabilitated.