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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" What we do as a society is seek simple answers. "

" 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. "

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

" I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Never, never try to scope the market. "

" I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "