Stephen King has named his most hated expressions. What are yours?

Many believe and some people say are among the phrases that make his skin crawl, he has revealed. Please share yours

The Atlantics fantastic interview on teaching, writing and reading with Stephen King is well worth reading in full. Its such a horrible idea to try teaching Moby-Dick or Dubliners to high school juniors. Even the bright ones lose heart. But its good to make them reach a little. Theyve got to see there are brighter literary worlds than Twilight. Reading good fiction is like making the jump from masturbation to sex .

But perhaps the most interesting part is where teacher and writer Jessica Lahey wrangles out of King what his most irritating phrases of the moment are. The author had, in his memoir and writers manual On Writing, previously laid down the following laws: I believe that anyone using the phrase Thats so cool should have to stand in the corner and that those using the far more odious phrases at this point in time and at the end of the day should be sent to bed without supper, also condemning passive verbs and adverbs.

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