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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

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

" In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. "

" Never, never try to scope the market. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. "

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

" 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. "

" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "