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" He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? "

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" This is not a bad life. "

" But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. "

" Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read. "

" After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. "

" And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. "

" In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. "

" I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become. "

" I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. "

" Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. "

" And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. "

" A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. "

" I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. "

" It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. "

" Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination. "

" We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. "

" You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen. "

" I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. "

" I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. "

" You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. "

" I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. "

" If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. "

" Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. "

" I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. "

" I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. "

" I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. "

" You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. "

" Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. "

" I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. "

" The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet. "