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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. "

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

" Never, never try to scope the market. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. "

" 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. "

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