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" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. "

" I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. "

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

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

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

" Never, never try to scope the market. "

" 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 the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. "

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

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

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

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