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

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" The devil's voice is sweet to hear. "

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

" The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. "

" It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. "

" We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. "

" Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. "

" Fiction is the truth inside the lie. "

" 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. "

" But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. "

" I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me. "

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

" I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish. "

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" 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. "

" Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" You have to stay faithful to what you're working on. "

" People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. "

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" I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. "

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" 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. "

" People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. "