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" I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "

" 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. "

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

" I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. "