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" It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. "

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" Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. "

" And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. "

" In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. "

" But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. "

" People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. "

" I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. "

" Fiction is the truth inside the lie. "

" Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. "

" I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. "

" That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. "

" Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. "

" I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. "

" When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' "

" Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. "

" The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. "

" We're news junkies in my house. "

" We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. "

" French is the language that turns dirt into romance. "

" Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. "

" Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. "

" The devil's voice is sweet to hear. "

" What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. "

" No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. "

" I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. "

" You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. "

" I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. "

" A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. "

" We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. "