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

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

" I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. "

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

" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "

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

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" 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.' "

" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "

" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

" 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. "

" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "

" When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. "

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

" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" A writer needs a life of introspection. "

" The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. "

" Education is for growth and fulfillment. "

" Well, I have never, ever Googled myself. "

" Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. "

" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "

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

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

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

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