Bestselling writer Stephen King, who once dubbed himself “the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries,” is giving up publishing books altogether after his next five, two of which have already been scheduled for 2002 release. “You get to a point where you get to the edges of a room, and you can go back and go where you’ve been, and basically recycle stuff,” King told The Los Angeles Times. “I’ve seen it in my own work. People when they read ‘Buick Eight’ [to be published by Scribner this fall] are going to think ‘Christine.’ It’s about a car that’s not normal, OK? You say, ‘I’ve said the things that I have to say, that are new and fresh and interesting to people.’ Then you have a choice. You can either continue to go on, or say I left when I was still on top of my game. I left when I was still holding the ball, instead of it holding me.”