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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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