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" Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. "

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

" I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. "

" I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "

" I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. "

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

" Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. "

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

" The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. "

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

" 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. "

" A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. "

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