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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Never, never try to scope the market. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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