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

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" I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

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

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

" I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society. "

" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. "

" 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. "

" Never, never try to scope the market. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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