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" If little else, the brain is an educational toy. "

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

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" There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. "

" 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.' "

" Writing is the hardest physical work there is. "

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

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" Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. "

" Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. "

" A writer needs a life of introspection. "

" We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. "

" The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. "

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" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "

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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. "

" To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. "

" A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. "

" 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?' "

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" 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. "

" There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. "

" 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. "