TIL an old lady who bumped into Stephen King in the supermarket told him she didn't like his writing and she preferred uplifting movies like Shawshank Redemption. When King told her he wrote that too, she replied 'No, you didn't.', causing King to momentarily doubt that he was indeed the author.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000175/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_qt_sm#quotes



Submitted March 19, 2015 at 07:20AM by Captain-Janeway http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2zjfsl/til_an_old_lady_who_bumped_into_stephen_king_in/