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" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "

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" If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people. "

" Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate. "

" Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. "

" Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. "

" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "

" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "

" If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. "

" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "

" Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. "

" We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away. "

" I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. "

" One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong. "

" The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. "

" Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. "

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" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "

" I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow. "

" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "

" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "

" There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. "

" Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. "

" I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. "

" I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. "

" My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast. "

" I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. "

" I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. "

" Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. "

" If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. "

" In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. "

" In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. "