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" I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. "

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" 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. "

" Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. "

" Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate. "

" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "

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

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" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow. "

" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "

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

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

" I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. "

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

" I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. "

" Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. "

" Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. "

" The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. "