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" I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are. "

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" I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation. "

" I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself. "

" I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. "

" This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them. "

" I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art. "

" I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else. "

" Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day. "

" If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed. "

" Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true. "

" This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth. "

" I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book. "

" I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally. "

" I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God. "

" I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story. "

" I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin. "

" The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced. "

" The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries. "

" I envy Jesus because he's dead. "

" I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in. "

" Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true. "

" Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny. "

" Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all. "

" I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels. "

" What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions. "

" One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything. "

" It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you. "

" I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. "

" Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that. "

" I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much. "