He also gets inspiration from his wife Tabitha. He threw the first few pages of "Carrie", his first novel, in the garbage can, but his wife fished them out and said he should keep working on it because he really had something there. So he took her advice, and if he hadn't taken her advice, he would have spent the rest of his life teaching high school English, nobody else outside Bangor, Maine would have heard of him, you wouldn't be making this meme, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.