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" I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. "

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" I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. "

" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "

" One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires. "

" People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. "

" If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. "

" Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. "

" My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. "

" Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. "

" A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "

" I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. "

" Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. "

" I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.' "

" A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. "

" John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' "

" Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom. "

" True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. "

" When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself. "

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" We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. "

" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

" The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. "

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" What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. "

" Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. "

" Education is for growth and fulfillment. "

" The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' "

" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "

" The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. "

" Writing is the hardest physical work there is. "

" If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. "