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" My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas. "

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" Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable. "

" Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable. "

" If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. "

" Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. "

" I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. "

" People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. "

" Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. "

" Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you. "

" Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. "

" My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. "

" Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. "

" Masochism is a valuable job skill. "

" A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music. "

" What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us. "

" There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. "

" There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. "

" If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? "

" Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars. "

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" My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. "

" Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. "

" My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd. "

" If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. "

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" Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. "

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