Stephen King's life as weird as his books

NEW YORK:  American author Stephen King says his life is as weird as his books.

He said: "I'm in the supermarket one day with my cart, and there's this woman, about 95. She says, 'I know who you are. You write those stories, those awful horror stories and I don't like that. I like uplifting movies like that 'Shawshank Redemption'.' So I said, 'I wrote that.' And she said, 'No, you didn't.'

"And that was it. Talk about surreal. I told myself, for a minute, it's not very much like my other stuff. Maybe I didn't write it!"

King was in New York recently to promote his new movie 'The Mist', pagesix.com reported.